As astronomers will report in a future issue of The Astronomical Journal, the dim cluster is ancient, having formed 12 billion years ago.
As the astronomers will report in a future issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters, VFTS 102 spins faster than any other normal star ever measured; the only stars known to spin faster are dead ones called pulsars.
As the researchers will report in a future issue of The Astrophysical Journal, two gas clouds likely collided in the Trifid's red region 1 million years ago, compressing gas that collapsed to spawn new stars.
Thus, as the scientists will announce in a future issue of The Astronomical Journal, the dim red sun probably revolves around the bright white star, even though the two are separated by a whopping 2.5 light-years of space, which is more than half the distance between the sun and Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to our own.
That news followed a similar announcement made by DC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio, who told attendees at the Kapow Comic Convention in London that an "established" superhero, originally introduced as straight, would come out in a future issue.
The Beano team were so pleased to meet him that they decided to include him in a future issue of the comic as a new character.
"But our position on this is that we consider this as a potential future issue to be considered depending on how things pan out," he told the Center for Strategic and International Studies thinktank.
While this discussion has been framed as an emerging future issue, firms are already taking steps to adapt to emerging challenges in anticipation of future disaster risk.
As this blog noted on Friday, speaking of climate change as a future problem shortchanges the entire issue.
Another interesting issue as a future work can be the installation of additional BSs to achieve greener topologies.
