This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way,

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This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way, or to imply the endorsement by ESO of any product, service or activity O-type star binary. Artwork of a binary pair of stars, including an O-type star (right), the hottest and brightest type of star. These are often found in close binary pairs with mass being transferred from one start to the other. O-type stars are large, hot, short-lived stars.

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Photo credit: © M. KORNMESSER/S.E. DE MINK/EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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