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It is the most massive star that has a Bayer designation. It was only discovered to be (at least) two stars in the past few decades. Both the obscuring clouds and the great distances also make it difficult to judge whether the star is just a single supermassive object or, instead, a multiple star system. A number of the "stars" listed below may ...
A yellow hypergiant, one of the rarest types of stars. V838 Monocerotis: 464 [81] L/T eff: During the 2002 Red Nova, the star's radius may have increased up to 3,190 R ☉. [82] Pistol Star (V4647 Sagittarii) 420 [83] L/T eff: One of the most luminous stars known. La Superba (Y Canum Venaticorum) 344 [84] L/T eff: Mira (ο Ceti A) 332–402 [85] AD
R136a1 (short for RMC 136a1) is one of the most massive and luminous stars known, at nearly 200 M ☉ and nearly 4.7 million L ☉, and is also one of the hottest, at around 46,000 K. It is a Wolf–Rayet star at the center of R136 , the central concentration of stars of the large NGC 2070 open cluster in the Tarantula Nebula (30 Doradus ) in ...
Researchers estimate that it could contain somewhere between 1,000 and 10,000 trillion stars. Astronomers just discovered one of the most massive objects in the universe hiding behind the Milky ...
The η Carinae star system is currently one of the most massive stars that can be studied in great detail. Until recently η Carinae was thought to be the most massive single star, but the system's binary nature was proposed by the Brazilian astronomer Augusto Damineli in 1996 [ 9 ] and confirmed in 2005. [ 98 ]
The James Webb Space Telescope has helped demystify the strange 2009 observation of a giant star about 25 times more massive than the sun that appeared to disappear from existence.
The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most ...
The most massive type of degenerate star is the neutron star. See Most massive neutron star for this recordholder. [NB 3] Most massive neutron star PSR J0740+6620: 2019 2.14 M ☉ Several candidates exist which have a higher mass, however their mass has been measured by less precise methods and as such their mass value is regarded as less ...