{"id":129,"date":"2026-07-22T11:05:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aj-website-pi.local\/?p=129"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:05:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:05:40","slug":"vfts-352","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/vfts-352\/","title":{"rendered":"VFTS 352"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">VFTS 352 is a contact binary system in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Both stars in the system are O-type deep blue stars, roughly 7 times larger than the Sun. While VFTS 352<sub>2<\/sub> is larger and more massive, both stars are incredibly similar. Both stars are tidally locked. The stars may end up creating a rapidly spinning single star in the future, but we may never know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Astronomical data<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>VFTS 352<sub>1<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Radius (in Solar Radii): 7.22 <em>R<\/em><sub>\u2609<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diameter (in Kilometers): 10,050,240 km<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mass (in Solar Masses): 28.63 <var>M<\/var><sub>\u2609<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Distance (in Light Years): 164,000 ly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spectral type: O4.5 V(n)((fc)):z: (Deep Blue)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>VFTS 352<sub>2<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Radius (in Solar Radii): 7.25 <em>R<\/em><sub>\u2609<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diameter (in Kilometers): 10,092,000 km<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mass (in Solar Masses): 28.85 <var>M<\/var><sub>\u2609<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spectral type: O5.5 V(n)((fc)):z: (Deep Blue)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VFTS 352 is a contact binary system in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Both stars in the system are O-type deep blue stars, roughly 7 times larger than the Sun. While VFTS 3522 is larger and more massive, both stars are incredibly similar. Both stars are tidally locked. The stars may end up creating a rapidly spinning single star in the&hellip; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/vfts-352\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VFTS 352<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31,7,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blue-giant-stars","category-contact-binaries","category-stars","category-stars-in-the-constellation-dorado","category-stars-in-the-large-magellanic-cloud","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}