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  2. List of most massive stars - Wikipedia

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    The Eddington limit is the point beyond which a star ought to push itself apart, or at least shed enough mass to reduce its internal energy generation to a lower, maintainable rate. The actual limit-point mass depends on how opaque the gas in the star is, and metal-rich Population I stars have lower mass limits than metal-poor Population II stars.

  3. NGC 7538 - Wikipedia

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    NGC 7538, near the more famous Bubble Nebula, is located in the constellation Cepheus.It is located about 9,100 light-years from Earth. It is home to the biggest yet discovered protostar which is about 300 times the size of the Solar System. [4]

  4. Protostar - Wikipedia

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    A protostar is a very young star that is still gathering mass from its parent molecular cloud. It is the earliest phase in the process of stellar evolution . [ 1 ] For a low-mass star (i.e. that of the Sun or lower), it lasts about 500,000 years. [ 2 ]

  5. Brown dwarf - Wikipedia

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    Brown dwarfs are substellar objects that have more mass than the biggest gas giant planets, but less than the least massive main-sequence stars.Their mass is approximately 13 to 80 times that of Jupiter (M J) [2] [3] —not big enough to sustain nuclear fusion of ordinary hydrogen (1 H) into helium in their cores, but massive enough to emit some light and heat from the fusion of deuterium (2 H).

  6. VY Canis Majoris - Wikipedia

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    Some old writings envisaged the star as a very young protostar or a massive pre-main-sequence star with an age of only 1 Myr and typically a circumstellar disk. [15] It has probably evolved from a hot, dense O9 main sequence star of 5–20 R ☉ (solar radii). [28] [30] [64] The star has evolved rapidly because of its high mass. The time spent ...

  7. List of most massive neutron stars - Wikipedia

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    Name Mass (M ☉) Distance ()Companion class Mass determination method Notes Refs. PSR J1748-2021B: 2.548 +0.047 −0.078: 27,700: D: Rate of advance of periastron.: In globular cluster NGC 6440.

  8. R136a1 - Wikipedia

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    Mass loss is largest for high-luminosity stars with low surface gravity and enhanced levels of heavy elements in the photosphere. R136a1 loses 1.6 × 10 −4 M ☉ ( 3.21 × 10 18 kg/s ) per year, over a billion times more than the Sun loses, and is expected to have shed about 35 M ☉ since its formation.

  9. Young stellar object - Wikipedia

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    A star forms by accumulation of material that falls in to a protostar from a circumstellar disk or envelope. Material in the disk is cooler than the surface of the protostar, so it radiates at longer wavelengths of light producing excess infrared emission. As material in the disk is depleted, the infrared excess decreases.