The most massive stars aren’t very big and just the opposite, the researchers say.
Scientists have named the largest and smallest stars. About what these stars are and where they are located writes Live Science.
“What is the largest star we know in the universe? The answer to this question depends on what you mean by it – its weight or size. Usually the heaviest stars are not very big and vice versa, the big stars can be very light by Because as the star grows, it loses mass,” said Phil Massey of the Lowell Observatory, Arizona, USA.
The most massive star in the known Universe is R136a1. It is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy at a distance of about 165 thousand light years from Earth.
The star is about a million years old. It is 40 times larger than the Sun in diameter and on average 200 times larger in weight.
The largest known star in the universe by size is UY Scutum. It is located at a distance of about 9.5 thousand light years from us in the constellation Shield.
The red supergiant exceeds the diameter of the Sun by about 1700 times and is about 2.4 billion km.
The smallest known star in the Universe, astronomers consider the star EBLM J0555-57Ab. It is smaller than Saturn (the diameter of the planet is slightly more than 116 thousand km).
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Recall that earlier the American space agency NASA launched a device in space to test new technologies and collect new information from the remains of an exploded star.
Astronomers have recorded the death of a supergiant star
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