Those behind the find say the star, called R136a1, may once have weighed as much as 320 solar masses. Astrophysicist Paul Crowther said the obese star - twice as heavy as any previously discovered - ...

Astronomers have yet to fully understand how the most massive stars -- those more than 100 times the mass of the Sun -- are formed. One particularly challenging piece of this puzzle is obtaining ...

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Astronomers say they have discovered the most colossal star on record, in a region of space known as the Tarantula nebula in a neighbouring galaxy to our own. The record-breaking star has a mass 265 ...

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Meet R136a1, the most massive star known. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, it's a hulking behemoth weighing somewhere between 150 and 200 times the mass of the sun. Understanding the upper limit ...

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Using a combination of instruments on the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), a team of astronomers has discovered the most massive stars to date. One star at birth had ...

One of the objects, known simply as R136a1, is the most massive ever found. The star is seen to have a mass about 265 times that of our own Sun; but the latest modelling work suggests at birth it ...

LONDON - A huge ball of brightly burning gas drifting through a neighboring galaxy may be the heaviest star ever discovered - hundreds of times more massive than the sun, scientists said yesterday ...