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The Brightest Stars in the Magellanic Clouds and Other Late-Type Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Roberta M. Humphreys
Roberta M. Humphreys*
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University of Minnesota

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The brightest stars always receive considerable attention in observational astronomy, but why are we so interested in these most luminous, and therefore most massive stars? These stars are our first probes for exploring the stellar content of distant galaxies. Admittedly, they are only the tip of the iceberg for the whole stellar population and very interesting processes are occurring among the less massive, older stars, but the most massive stars are our first indicators for studies of stellar evolution in other galaxies. They provide the first hint that stellar evolution may have been different in a particular galaxy because they evolve so quickly. The most luminous stars also highly influence their environments via their strong stellar winds and mass loss and eventually as supernovae.

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Stellar Populations
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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 108: Structure and Evolution of the Magellanic Clouds , 1984 , pp. 145 - 156
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Copyright © Reidel 1984 

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