Behold Trumpler 14 , a dazzling star cluster located 8,000 lightsome - year from Earth . Situated within the Carina Nebula , it ’s home to one of the highest compactness of massive , bright star topology in the Milky Way . But as prominent as these stellar objects appear be , their olympian show comes at a price .
This family of white - blue stars are embodiments of the “ alive tight , pass away young ” approaching to universe . They ’re just 500,000 years old , so they ’re relative newcomers to the galaxy — but they ’re quickly burn down up their immense supplying of hydrogen . Packed nigh together , these lucent stars look dead awesome , but they only have a few million years left before they blow up as supernovae .
Trumpler 14 — one of the largest collection of hot , massive wizard in the Milky Way .
There are about 2,000 superstar in Trumpler 14 , some of them several 10 of times large than our Sun . The big bright star is supergiant HD 93129Aa , one of the hottest and most brilliant lead in the Milky Way .
As they burn , these stars are hurtling eminent - speed atom out into blank space . When these wind strike surrounding material , they produce a shock moving ridge that heats the flatulency to millions of degrees and trigger intense burst of ecstasy - re . These stellar winds affect the shape of nearby cloud of gas and dust , while also kindling the parturition of new stars . And in fact , that electric arc - shaped cloud at the bottom of the image is a curtain call electric shock that was produced by these idle words .
Trumpler 14 ( circled in bolshie ) is located in the Carina Nebula .
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All image : NASA & ESA , Jesús Maíz Apellániz ( Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia )
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