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Image title	A new near-infrared image of the R136 cluster, obtained at high resolution with the MAD adaptive optics instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope, provides unique details of its stellar content. At birth, the three brightest stars each weighed more than 150 times the mass of the Sun. The most massive star, known as R136a1 and located at the centre of the image, has been found to have a current mass of 265 times thatof the Sun. It also has the highest luminosity, close to ten million times greater than the Sun.
Date and time of data generation	12:00, 21 July 2010
Credit/Provider	ESO/P. Crowther/C.J. Evans
Source	European Southern Observatory
Contact information	http://www.eso.org/ Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Garching bei München, , D-85748 Germany
Short title	The young cluster RMC 136a
Keywords	RMC 136a
Usage terms	Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license