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Huge Stars Can Destroy Nearby Planetary Disks

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Huge Stars Can Destroy Nearby Planetary Disks

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    Huge Stars Can Destroy Nearby Planetary Disks
    by Evan Gough

    Westerlund 2 is a star cluster about 20,000 light years away. It’s young—only about one or two million years old—and its core contains some of the brightest and hottest stars we know of. Also some of the most massive ones. There’s something unusual going on around the massive hot stars at the heart of Westerlund …

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