Recently, I came upon this interesting Science article by chance. The article is basically about astronomers discovering the most massive star of all time , R136a1 (weird name!) . For my entire life, I always thought that the Sun was the largest star, but after reading this article I realised that I was wrong all these years! R136a1 is proven to have a mass 265 times of our Sun! And when it is born it is 320 times that of the Sun's mass! From this article, I also found out that there are many stars with temperatures over 40,000 degrees - more than seven times hotter than the Sun! I can't imagine how hot it can be when I could hardly stand 35 degrees . I feel that Scientists these days are extremely good, with technology they are able to find out about planets and many other things which which we humans would have never ever thought of!
This a short 15sec clip, enjoy!
This a short 15sec clip, enjoy!
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