Wednesday, June 3, 2020

WOH G17

CommanderWaterford: + using StubSorter


This star could possibly be the largest star known, with a radii of nearly 3000!<ref>"Luminosities and mass-loss rates of Local Group AGB stars and red supergiants". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 609. arXiv:1711.07803. Bibcode:2018A&A...609A.114G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201731089.</ref> If placed in our solar system, it's photosphere would engulf the orbit of Saturn and nearly reach the orbit of Uranus. It is a supergiant or hypergiant star.




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