{"id":240033,"date":"2016-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=bf33ac63b7ea6e664b902e0ee2b9e305"},"modified":"2016-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T16:00:00","slug":"monster-stars-in-r136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=240033","title":{"rendered":"Monster stars in R136"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2016\/03\/monster_stars_in_r136\/15888942-1-eng-GB\/Monster_stars_in_R136_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nShowcased in this NASA\u2013ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a young&nbsp;stellar cluster known as R136.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLocated in the Tarantula Nebula within the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 170&nbsp;000 light-years away, the young cluster hosts many extremely massive, hot and&nbsp;luminous stars whose energy is mostly radiated in the ultraviolet. Scientists&nbsp;have combined images taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on Hubble with&nbsp;the unprecedented ultraviolet spatial resolution of the Space Telescope&nbsp;Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) to identify some of the most massive and&nbsp;brightest stars known.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs well as finding dozens of stars exceeding 50 solar masses, this new study&nbsp;revealed nine very massive stars in the cluster, all more than 100 times more&nbsp;massive as the Sun. The detected stars are not only extremely massive, but&nbsp;also extremely bright. Together, these nine stars outshine the Sun by a&nbsp;factor of 30 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2016\/03\/monster_stars_in_r136\/15888942-1-eng-GB\/Monster_stars_in_R136_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nShowcased in this NASA&ndash;ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a young&nbsp;stellar cluster known as R136.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLocated in the Tarantula Nebula within the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 170&nbsp;000 light-years away, the young cluster hosts many extremely massive, hot and&nbsp;luminous stars whose energy is mostly radiated in the ultraviolet. Scientists&nbsp;have combined images taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on Hubble with&nbsp;the unprecedented ultraviolet spatial resolution of the Space Telescope&nbsp;Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) to identify some of the most massive and&nbsp;brightest stars known.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs well as finding dozens of stars exceeding 50 solar masses, this new study&nbsp;revealed nine very massive stars in the cluster, all more than 100 times more&nbsp;massive as the Sun. The detected stars are not only extremely massive, but&nbsp;also extremely bright. Together, these nine stars outshine the Sun by a&nbsp;factor of 30 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240034,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240033\/revisions\/240034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}