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R136c
Sign in to saveR136c is a likely binary star located in R136, a tight knot of stars at the centre of NGC 2070, an open cluster weighing 450,000 solar masses and containing 10,000 stars. At and 3.8 million , it is one of the most massive stars known and one of the most luminous, along with being one of the hottest, at over . It was first resolved and named by Feitzinger in 1980, along with R136a and R136b.
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- spectral class
- WN5h
- right ascension
- 84.67881750
- declination
- -69.10137167
- apparent magnitude
- 12.86
- catalog code
- [H2013] LMCe 1402
- absolute magnitude
- -7.9
- effective temperature
- 51000
- luminosity
- 5623000
- age estimated by a dating method
- 1.8
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R136c is a likely binary star located in R136, a tight knot of stars at the centre of NGC 2070, an open cluster weighing 450,000 solar masses and containing 10,000 stars. At and 3.8 million , it is one of the most massive stars known and one of the most luminous, along with being one of the hottest, at over . It was first resolved and named by Feitzinger in 1980, along with R136a and R136b.
== Description == R136c is a Wolf–Rayet star of the spectral type WN5h and with a temperature of , making it one of hottest stars known. It is one of the most massive stars known, with a mass of , and it is one of the most luminous stars known, with a luminosity of 3.8 million . The extreme luminosity is produced by the CNO fusion process in its highly compressed hot core. Typical of all Wolf–Rayet stars, R136c has been losing mass by means of a strong stellar wind with speeds over and mass loss rates in excess of solar masses per year.