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Hubble Space Telescope Pinpoints 'Monster' Stars

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the central region of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The R136 star cluster — the blue stars in the lower right — contains massive stars, including nine newly-identified stars more than 100 times as massive as our sun. (NASA, ESA, P Crowther (University of Sheffield))
This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the central region of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The R136 star cluster — the blue stars in the lower right — contains massive stars, including nine newly-identified stars more than 100 times as massive as our sun. (NASA, ESA, P Crowther (University of Sheffield))

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