{"id":413478,"date":"2017-05-26T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=9c86efdb72f6b63bd4aa3423747139e5"},"modified":"2017-05-26T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T23:00:00","slug":"how-massive-can-stars-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=413478","title":{"rendered":"How massive can stars be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theoretical assessment of the upper limit of a star\u2019s mass is a difficult problem which lies at the<br \/>\nfrontier of astrophysical research. In this article we develop a simple and plausible argument to<br \/>\nestimate this value. The value at which we arrive is ~228 solar masses; well within the range of<br \/>\npredicted accepted theoretical values. Towards the end of the article, theoretical estimations are<br \/>\ncompared with observational evidence, and a brief overview of the current research is given. The<br \/>\narticle is aimed at non-graduate students of sciences and engineering and the only requirements are<br \/>\nelemental algebra and general notions of classical physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theoretical assessment of the upper limit of a star\u2019s mass is a difficult problem which lies at the<br \/>\nfrontier of astrophysical research. In this article we develop a simple and plausible argument to<br \/>\nestimate this value. The value at which we arrive &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-413478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=413478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}