Plaskett's Star
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plaskett-s-star-235-11110136
title:
Plaskett's Star
text:
Plaskett's Star, also known as HR 2422 and V640 Monocerotis, is a spectroscopic binary at a distance of around 6600 light-years. It is one of the most massive binary stars known, with a total mass of around one hundred times that of the Sun. Indeed, it was long thought to be the most massive known binary system, but evidence collected between 1996 and 2005 demonstrated that Eta Carinae, which was previously thought to be a massive individual star, is a binary system. This system is named after J
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description:
Spectroscopic binary star in the constellation Monoceros
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaskett%27s_Star
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date modified:
2023-11-21T19:59:08Z
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