Space.com even coined the term "Mon-Stars".
I thought this discovery can make a good discussion topic on the EU aspects of this.
Unfortunately, when I went to choose an article to link, I found them all unsatisfactory, all of them just giving a bare minimum of the facts.
I first heard of it in a radio report, in which a scientist was interviewed, and he said many interesting things.
The region of space in question is only a few light years across or about the same distance from the Sun to our nearest neighbour, Proxima Centauri. Besides the nine super stars which all the articles mention, he said there are also more stars in this small region than there are in all of the Milky Way, and many of them are giant.
The cluster is in the Large Magellenic Cloud, which until now, I was under the presumption the large and small magellenic clouds were just secondary features of the Milky Way - bits of dust and a few stars that broke away. I'm throwing that misconception out.
This discovery seems to overturn many assumptions in standard cosmology.
Should get EU minds to working too.
A massively dense Birkeland current with millions of filaments eddying within, and z-pinching into stars?
~Paul
