At the top end of the scale, the most massive known star in the sky is R136a1, a star more than 300 times as massive as our sun. And it's not alone in dwarfing Earth's dominant star. RMC 136a1 ...

The star cluster hosting R136a1 has previously been observed by ... [3] When observing in the red part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum (about 832 nanometers), the Zorro instrument on ...

The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many ... The researchers found the star, known as R136a1, in a region of a neighbouring galaxy that is ...

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But even docked a few levels, this staggering ball of gas is still the universe's most massive known star. That's how utterly huge it is. Lovingly named R136a1, the luminous giant lives 160,000 ...

The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many ... The biggest star found, R136a1 within the R136a cluster, has a current mass of 265 solar masses ...

But improved observations showed it to be a bright cluster of massive young stars, rather than one object. It’s ironic that R136a1, the most massive object the team found in the R136a group ...

Named R136a1, the star sits toward the centre of RMC 137a, a crowded cluster of hot young stars some 165,000 light years away in the Large Magellenic Cloud, one of the Milky Way’s nearest ...

One of the objects, known simply as R136a1, is the most massive ever found. The star is seen to have a mass about 265 times that of our own Sun; but the latest modelling work suggests at birth it ...

However, astronomers recently succeeded at finding the most massive star so far discovered in the Universe. Called R136a1, it is about 265 times more massive than our Sun.