Thursday, June 7, 2007

Astronomers find most massive star ever discovered

This is really cool — astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile and Hubble have discovered the most massive star ever found, coming in at 114 times the mass of the Sun. This blows away the previously most massive known star, which had a mere 83 solar masses. That’s a huge star!



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