VFTS 352
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vfts-352-280-4601962
title:
VFTS 352
text:
VFTS 352 is a contact binary star system 160,000 light-years (49,000 pc) away in the Tarantula Nebula, which is part of the Large Magellanic Cloud. It is the most massive and earliest spectral type overcontact system known. The discovery of this O-type binary star system made use of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, and the description was published on 13 October 2015. VFTS 352 is composed of two very hot (40,000 °C), bright and massive stars of equal size that orbit each
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description:
Contact binary star system in the constellation Dorado
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFTS_352
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date modified:
2023-09-25T23:17:48Z
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13
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15