Stars Have a Weight Limit

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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Just think, won't be able to say this much longer:

[sgant]

"Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope...

Yeah, in the very near future, they'll say "wow, if only we had an orbiting telescope..."

Back to the stone-ages for us!

Re:Just think, won't be able to say this much long

[sgant]

Wow, how did this get modded as a troll? Are there mods out there that wish for the demise of Hubble or something? This is a very real thing that's happening and it's going to be a tragic loss.

I rank the success of Hubble right up there with Apollo in terms of NASA's crowning moments.

Re:Just think, won't be able to say this much long

[Anonymous Coward]

It will cost just as much to repair the Hubble as it would to put something else more compact and powerful out there, so troll or not, Hubble needs to make way for leaner and more powerful machinery.

Never trust a scientist that tells you something..

[exp(pi*sqrt(163))]

...is impossible.

Never trust a reader to correctly interpret a story posted on /. that is a misunderstood link to a pop science report about a paper published by a scientist. I think the scientists themselves are doing fine without the /. commentary on how they could do their job better.