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Massive Stars Need the Right Stuff to Grow

If you think our Sun is a big star, you've seen nothing! Behemoths as large as 120 solar masses lie all around the universe. Theory predicts that stars cannot grow larger than 150 times the mass of the Sun, either that or something drastic must happen, as stellar evolution models cannot explain such objects. Two...

28 February 2008
02:52 GMT

Colossal Cosmic Explosion Appears out of Nowhere

Representing one of the brightest stellar explosions seen this year, the GRB 070125 was discovered on the 25th of January with the Palomar robotic space telescope, operated by the Inter-Planetary Network. It is not the intensity of the glow that seems to present too much interest to astronomers since supernova explos...

19 December 2007
04:00 GMT




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