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Ep 175: Science News 1: Population III - The First Generation of Stars in the Universe Observed?

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The Eddington Limit and the Motion of a Star

There's a limit to how high the temperature can be and how great the luminosity can be given the strength of gravity which is determined by the mass of an object. Some objects seem to exceed the Eddington limit or rather maybe they do maybe they don't eat a coroni this unstable star might actually be two stars it might be a binary star we don't know but seems to exceed that limit. If you add yet more mass then the rest of the star also heats up due to the energy coming from that increasingly hot core so the core is hot due to the nuclear reactions going on there. The hotter it is the more that the core heats up the parts of the star where the

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