| Subject: Re: A colossal star with a mass around 265 times that of our Sun. |
| From: Brad Guth |
| Date: 23/07/2010, 19:56 |
| Newsgroups: alt.alien.research,alt.alien.visitors,alt.astronomy,alt.ufo.reports,alt.paranet.ufo |
On Jul 21, 11:39 pm, Sir Gilligan Horry <G...@ga7rm5er.com> wrote:
"A colossal star with a mass around 265 times that of our Sun has been
detected some 22,000 light years away. Known as R136a1."
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/monster-star
Nice photo archives here too...
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
"Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive".
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Perhaps the smallest planets around that big sucker are Jupiter class,
and otherwise 10x or even <100x Mj w/moons easily the size and mass of
Earth.
That monster star R136a1 (<320 Ms) sounds great, and according to the
best available astrophysics of stellar formation and its evolution, at
that terrific mass it can't possibly be very old. Perhaps it's just a
few million years old, and as such it isn't going to last very long
befire turning into a serious black hole.
~ BG.