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9 de feb. de 2015 · The universe is such a big place that it is easy to get baffled by the measurements that astronomers make. The size of UY Scuti, possibly one of the largest stars we have observed to date, is ...
14 de abr. de 2020 · WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - Scientists have observed the biggest supernova - stellar explosion - ever detected, the violent death of a huge star up to 100 times more massive than our sun in a faraway ...
the Biggest Star ever observed | largest terrifying star | NASAOur sun is enormous: More than a million Earths could fit inside of it. But on a stellar scale...
21 de jul. de 2010 · Astronomers detect 'monster star'. Zooming in on the most massive stars ever found. Star R136a1 (far right) is in a dense cluster of stars 165,000 light years from earth. They are among the true ...
30 de ene. de 2020 · VY Canis Majoris is situated at around 3.900 light-years / 1.2 kiloparsecs away from the Sun. It is one of the biggest stars ever observed and detected in the Milky Way galaxy. VY Canis Majoris has been estimated to have around 17 solar masses, and it is believed that it's lost more than half its mass.
Now they have. In this week's issue of Nature, a team led by Rolf Chini of Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, reports the detection of a gigantic accretion disk, measuring some 3 trillion kilometers across, hidden away in the Omega nebula, a young star–forming region 7000 light-years away. The disk is by far the largest ever observed.
10 de jul. de 2013 · Scientists have observed in unprecedented detail the birth of a massive star within a dark cloud core about 10,000 light-years from Earth. The team used the new ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) telescope in Chile – the most powerful radio telescope in the world – to view the stellar womb which, at 500 times the mass of ...
