Most Massive Star Discovered: Over 300 Suns at Birth!

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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Most Massive Star Discovered: Over 300 Suns at Birth!

id="attachment_69345" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 624px">href="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/eso1030a.jpg">class="size-large wp-image-69345 " title="Zooming in on a giant: the Tarantula Nebula in the visible light on the left, a zoomed-in image of the location of R 136 in the center panel, and the R 136 cluster in the lower right of the last panel. Image Credit:ESO/P. Crowther/C.J. Evans" src="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/eso1030a-1024x346.jpg" alt="" width="614" height="208" />class="wp-caption-text">Zooming in on a giant: the Tarantula Nebula in the visible light on the left, a zoomed-in image of the location of R 136 in the center panel, and the R 136 cluster in the lower right of the last panel. Image Credit:ESO/P. Crowther/C.J. Evans

Often, writing about href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/astronomy/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">astronomy tends to href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/telescopes/telescope-mirror/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">mirror the job of those writing for the Guiness Book of World Records – just when you think a record is practically unbeatable, somebody else appears to show up the previous record-holder. This is surely the case with the stellar heavyweight (er, "heavymass") R 136a1, which has been shown by data taken using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/telescopes/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">Telescope and the Hubble href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/space/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">Space Telescope to tip the stellar scales at 265 times the mass of href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/the-sun/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">our Sun. What's even more impressive is that R 136a1 has lost mass over the course of its lifetime, and likely was about 320 href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/the-sun/solar/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">solar masses at birth. That deserves a "Yikes!"(...)
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