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  • Hubble telescope unveils never before seen ‘monster stars’

    03/17/2016 6:19:51 PM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 15 replies
    wattsupwiththat.com ^ | March 17, 2016 | Anthony Watts
    An international team of scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has combined images taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) with the unprecedented ultraviolet spatial resolution of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) to successfully dissect the young star cluster R136 in the ultraviolet for the first time [1].The image shows the central region of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The young and dense star cluster R136 can be seen at the lower right of the image. This cluster contains hundreds of young blue stars, among them the most massive star detected in the...