A Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of Pismis 24-1. Credit: HST/NASA/ESA.
Pismis 24-1 is part of an open cluster in the nebula NGC 6357. Pismis 24-1 is the largest and more brilliant of the visible stars of this cluster, Pismis 24, and is one of the most massive stars known. The star is at least a double star, as revealed by the recent observation of camera ACS of the Hubble space telescope. Pismis 24-1 is composed of at least three objects, the resolved Pismis 24-1SW and the unresolved spectroscopic binary Pismis 24-1NE. The evolutionary zero-age masses of those two objects and that of the nearby Pismis 24-17 are all approximately 100 solar masses, very large but under the stellar upper mass limit. See also * PISMIS * List of most massive stars Links * Massive Stars in Open Cluster Pismis 24 , 2006 December 19 References 1. ^ a b SIMBAD Astronomical Database. Results for NGC 6357. Retrieved on 2007-04-12.
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