Biggest star ever found

European astronomers have the greatest star ever discovered. R136a1 is 265 times more massive than our Sun This is remarkable, because according to all current theories can not weigh more than 150 stars known solar masses.

The scientists did their research using a telescope at the European Southern Observatory, the discovery Wednesday brought out.

R136a1 used to be even harder, make the astronomers. Arose around, just over one million years ago, the star about 320 times heavier than the Sun have been.

Not only is the heaviest R136a1 star ever found, it is also the brightest object ever discovered. The star seems about ten million times as bright as our sun but the star is so far away that he was barely visible in the night sky.

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