{"id":234516,"date":"2025-06-13T04:41:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T18:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=9357bcb0c822daa535006486f5395e71"},"modified":"2025-06-13T04:41:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T18:41:56","slug":"far-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=234516","title":{"rendered":"Far Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pismis-24.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1272\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pismis-24.jpg?w=1272\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"A group of white and blue stars sparkles in the darkness of space. In the background are orange galaxies, sprinkled all over. Below the stars, orange and yellow clouds of gas glow, revealing structures that look like rock formations and arches.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pismis-24.jpg 3140w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pismis-24.jpg?resize=186,300 186w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pismis-24.jpg?resize=768,1237 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pismis-24.jpg?resize=636,1024 636w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pismis-24.jpg?resize=954,1536 954w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pismis-24.jpg?resize=1272,2048 1272w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pismis-24.jpg?resize=248,400 248w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pismis-24.jpg?resize=373,600 373w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pismis-24.jpg?resize=559,900 559w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pismis-24.jpg?resize=745,1200 745w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pismis-24.jpg?resize=1242,2000 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1272px) 100vw, 1272px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA, ESA and Jes\u00fas Ma\u00edz Apell\u00e1niz (Instituto de Astrof\u00edsica de Andaluc\u00eda, Spain); Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA\/Hubble)<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pismis 24, the star cluster seen here in an image released on Dec. 11, 2006, lies within the much larger emission nebula called NGC 6357, located about 8,000 light-years from Earth. The brightest object in the picture was once thought to be a single star with an incredibly large mass of 200 to 300 solar masses. That would have made it by far the most massive known star in the galaxy and would have put it considerably above the currently believed upper mass limit of about 150 solar masses for individual stars. Measurements from NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope, however, discovered that <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/hubble\/heavyweight-stars-light-up-nebula-ngc-6357\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Pismis 24-1 is actually two separate stars<\/a>, and, in doing so, &#8220;halved&#8221; their mass to around 100-150 solar masses each.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: NASA, ESA and Jes\u00fas Ma\u00edz Apell\u00e1niz (Instituto de Astrof\u00edsica de Andaluc\u00eda, Spain); Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA\/Hubble)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pismis 24, the star cluster seen here in an image released on Dec. 11, 2006, lies within the much larger emission nebula called NGC 6357, located about 8,000 light-years from Earth. The brightest object in the picture was once thought to be a single star with an incredibly large mass of 200 to 300 solar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15776],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-star-clusters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235097,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234516\/revisions\/235097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}