Friday, June 08, 2007

Bad Astronomy Blog » Astronomers find most massive star ever discovered

Astronomers find the most massive star ever discovered
It's 114 solar masses and it's part of a binary system with a companion star that has a size of 84 solar masses - which is the second-largest star we know of! They are virtually a single star - so close together that they orbit each other in less than four days.

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