How the largest star known is tearing itself apartMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The largest known star at present is a red supper giant star. It's UY scuti. It's 4.5 billion times bigger than the sun. If it were placed ad center of the sun it's edge would be beyond the orbit of Jupiter and close the orbit of Saturn. Goodbye see you soon!
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One constellation it picked out was the star grouping known as Dorado, the Dolphinfish. The researchers also used the technique to map the whole sky. It generated groups of stars. The scientists compared those groups to the 88 modern constellations. Those are groups of stars recognized by the...
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The Pink Legacy, known as the "Leonardo d a Vinci of diamonds", was the largest vivid pink diamond to have ever been put under the hammer.1. What can we know about the 552-carat diamond? A. It was uncovered in 2015. B. It is a very common diamond. C. It has been two billion...
The Great Mosque of Mecca, better known as the Al Masjid Al Haram, is the holiest of holy places in Islamic culture. Located in Saudi Arabia, it’s the largest mosque in the world, and one of the oldest, too. With the ability to house millions of worshipers at any one time, the ...
The star that transforms into a red supergiant does so at a cost. It loses a large percentage of its mass out to space. As a result, while red supergiants are counted as the largest stars in the universe, they are not the most massive because they lose mass as they age, even as th...
One of them is a gas giant at least 5.6 times as massive as Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar systemIt was detected around a star known under the scientific designation HD28185.Many of the previously discovered extrasolar planets of similar size were found close to stars or revolved...