The young cluster RMC 136a
eso_eso1030d July 21st, 2010
Credit: ESO/P. Crowther/C.J. Evans
A new near-infrared image of the R136 cluster, obtained at high resolution with the MAD adaptive optics instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope, provides unique details of its stellar content. At birth, the three brightest stars each weighed more than 150 times the mass of the Sun. The most massive star, known as R136a1 and located at the centre of the image, has been found to have a current mass of 265 times that of the Sun. It also has the highest luminosity, close to ten million times greater than the Sun.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1030d/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1030d
- Subject Category
- C.3.6.4
- Subject Name
- RMC 136a
- Credits
- ESO/P. Crowther/C.J. Evans
- Release Date
- 2010-07-21T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1030d/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- ESO Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator (MAD)
- Color Assignment
- Blue
- Band
- Infrared
- Bandpass
- Near-IR
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 84.6757570176, -69.100113041
- Reference Dimension
- 1288.0, 1296.0
- Reference Pixel
- 644.0, 648.0
- Scale
- -9.77899732464e-07, 9.77899732464e-07
- Rotation
- 0.39999999999999919
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- http://www.eso.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso1030d
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1030d.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2024-02-22T14:22:49.264154
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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