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Giant Cluster is Spitting Out Massive Stars


We live inside the Milky Way galaxy which is joined as it drifts through space by two satellite galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds. A star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud known as R136 has been the subject of a fascinating discovery.

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Presolar grains are tiny solid minerals that crystallized in the gas of ancient stars. These crystals are the oldest material ever handled by humans. Some, from the Murchison meteorite, belonged to a group of massive stars that perished hundreds of millions of years before the birth of our Sun.