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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. Just think, won't be able to say this much longer: by sgant · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "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!

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  2. Re:Just think, won't be able to say this much long by sgant · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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    "Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith