Westerhaut 51 is the unassuming name of a vast "star factory" 17,000 light years from Earth. 350 light years across, it contains numerous O-type stars, the rarest on the main sequence: extremely hot, massive, and luminous blue beasts with surface temperatures greater than 30,000 kelvin. — Read the rest
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