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Stars Have a Weight Limit

Posted by timothy on from the or-they-can't-wrestle dept.

Mike writes "Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers made the first direct measurement within our Milky Way Galaxy, and concluded stars cannot get any larger than about 150 times the mass of our sun. The astronomers used the Hubble to probe the Arches cluster, the densest in our galaxy. This finding takes astronomers closer to understanding the complex star formation process. It also gives the strongest backing yet to the notion stars have a weight limit."

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  1. Disagree by Ghetto_D · · Score: 5, Funny
    I disagree, Stars have no weight limit

    http://www.starjones.com/

    //I'm awful, I know

  2. Proven false by Dram · · Score: 4, Funny

    Clearly Kirstie Alley is proving this false.

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  3. Else by Dolly_Llama · · Score: 4, Funny

    concluded stars cannot get any larger than about 150 times the mass of our sun.

    Else they have to pay for two seats.

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    1. Re:Else by ekuns · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hmm, last I checked, gravity discriminates against fat people.

      Gravity doesn't discriminate against fat people. It pulls on them too. Just imagine if all you had to do to avoid gravity was gain weight. (Wait a minute...)

    2. Re:Else by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      In this case, weight and height have an implied correlation, and people are a whole lot less sensitive about their heights than weights.

      Can you imagine what my girlfriend would say if she found out I had posted her weight on /.?

      I'm brave, but that would just be stupid. ;-)

  4. hmmm by crimson_1190 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think Anna Nichole smith has proved that one wrong. she hasn't lost weight, mearly collapsed in on herself

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  5. Reading the article... by jd · · Score: 2, Funny

    It does NOT say that stars over 150 solar masses can't exist, only that the cluster is missing them. So, if the Anonymous Coward who walked off with them would own up, everything would be ok.

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  6. Article says by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 5, Funny

    Regarding the cluster that was studied:

    "It resides 25,000 light-years away from Earth in our galaxy's hub"

    Ahhh, it's an unswitched star topology network.

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  7. Re:Just think, won't be able to say this much long by jnicholson · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's a cross between Incoherent and Rant. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

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