An international team of astronomers has revealed an 'astonishing' overabundance of Massive Stars in a neighbouring galaxy. The Tarantula Nebula [Credit: NASA, ESA, D. Lennon]Lead author Fabian Schneider, a Hintze Research Fellow in the University of Oxford's Department of Physics, said: "We were astonished when we realised that 30 Doradus has formed many more massive stars than expected." As part of the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey...

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