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24 de sept. de 2022 · The record holder there is the star R136a1, Massey said. It's located about 160,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. In diameter ...
14 de feb. de 2024 · UY Scuti holds the prestigious title of the largest known star, a red supergiant star that dwarfs even the most luminous stars in our night sky. As a hypergiant star, UY Scuti's immense size is almost incomprehensible, with a radius about 1,700 times larger than that of our Sun. This means if UY Scuti were placed at the center of our solar ...
UY Scuti (BD-12°5055) is a red supergiant star, located 5,900 light-years away in the constellation Scutum.It is also a pulsating variable star, with a maximum brightness of magnitude 8.29 and a minimum of magnitude 10.56, which is too dim for naked-eye visibility. It is considered to be one of the largest known stars, with a radius estimated at 909 solar radii (632 million kilometres; 4.23 ...
10 de ene. de 2020 · The star R136a1 currently holds the record as the most massive star known to exist in the universe. It's more than 265 times the mass of our Sun, more than double most stars on this list. Astronomers are still trying to understand how the star can even exist. It is also the most luminous at nearly 9 million times that of our Sun.
1 de oct. de 2022 · What Is The Biggest Star Ever Found? Stars are among the largest and brightest objects in the universe.Stars come in a variety of sizes, with some only a fraction the size of our sun, and others being hundreds of times larger than the sun.To date, the largest star ever discovered is a massive hypergiant star called UY Scuti, located around 5,219 light years away.
The largest known star (in terms of mass and brightness) is called the Pistol Star. It is believed to be 100 times as massive as our Sun, and 10,000,000 times as bright! In 1990, a star named the Pistol Star was known to lie at the center of the Pistol Nebula in the Milky Way Galaxy. In 1995, it was suggested that the Pistol Star was so massive ...
3 de may. de 2023 · Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star with a distinctive orange-red hue. Stars in this class are nearing the end of their lives. They are the largest stars in the universe because they puff up and expand out into space in their old age. A 2020 image from the Heliospheric Imager aboard NASA’s STEREO spacecraft shows the star Betelgeuse, circled.
