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An international team of astronomers had been observing 2 young star clusters near the Milky Way with a giant telescope in Chile, when they found a huge star in the Tarantula Nebula. They have discovered what might be the largest ever star, with a mass 300 times that of the Sun.
Large stars are said to be hard to detect, as they burn themselves out in a relatively short time. Dr Richard Parker of Britain’s University of Sheffield said that the new discovery overturned conventional ideas about the size of a star.
The star is 165,000 light-years from the Sun, and its surface temperature is 40,000 degrees Celsius, this is 7 times hotter. It is believed to be 2 times as massive as the previously known largest star, found in a galaxy 240 million light-years away. So can we visit it in the future?
please reword this article,this star is not the largest.it has the heaviest mass.the largest star is the red hypergiant canis majoris which is 2000 times the diameter of the sun
thanks
Mark isn’t too bright, I’m sure a team of astronomers would know a lot more than a loser off the street.
DUH
Mark is correct. It is more massive, not larger in diameter.