Posted on 07/21/2010 10:25:09 AM PDT by TaraP
The R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses greatly exceed the accepted 150 M-Sun stellar mass limit
http://arxiv.org/find/all/1/all:+R136a1/0/1/0/all/0/1
The team found several stars with surface temperatures over 40,000 degrees - more than seven times hotter than our Sun.GOTCHA!
He learned about it while getting a massage.
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Thanks AdmSmith.
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