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Melnick 39 is a colliding-wind binary system, observations find

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Astronomers from the University of Sheffield and Pennsylvania State University have performed X-ray and optical observations of a massive star.

They found that Melnick 39 is a colliding-wind binary system composed of two O-type supergiant stars.

The primary and secondary stars have minimum masses of 105 and 80 solar masses, respectively.

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