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Hubble unveils nine new monster stars
Using the unique ultraviolet capabilities of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of scientists has identified nine monster stars with masses over 100 times the mass of the sun in the star cluster R136.
New York: Using the unique ultraviolet capabilities of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of scientists has identified nine monster stars with masses over 100 times the mass of the sun in the star cluster R136.
R136 is only a few light-years across and is located in the Tarantula Nebula within the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 170,000 light-years away. The young cluster hosts many extremely massive, hot and luminous stars whose energy is mostly radiated in the ultraviolet, NASA said in its report on Wednesday.
Apart from being extremely massive, the detected stars are also extremely bright. Together these nine stars outshine the Sun by a factor of 30 million.
The scientists also investigated the outflows of these nine starts and reported that they eject up to an Earth mass of material per month at a speed approaching one percent of the speed of light, resulting in extreme weight loss throughout their brief lives.
