Thursday, July 22, 2010

A Bigger Star than the Sun!

Is there really a bigger star than the Sun?. Well, astronomers have found its answer, yes!. Astronomers found a massive star that is larger than the sun. This massive star is called R136a1. The star weighs 265 times more than the mass of the sun. This discovery has blown astronomers away. Astronomers believed before that stars would only be 150 times more than the mass of the sun, but they were wrong. They don't think that the star will last because they say that at some point the star will explode by itself and will leave no corpse of itself behind. Astronomers were lucky to capture the massive star with a very large telescope in Chile. The star burns hydrogen fuel in an unprecedented rate, which is amazing. The massive star is younger than our sun

That there is another star bigger than our sun is amazing. In our solar system, the biggest star is the Sun. The sun, is the power source of Earth. The sun provides the Earth with light, which makes our plants grow, and provides light to Earth. The Sun is part of life on Earth, without it the Earth would just not be what it is today. Astronomers have said that the massive star may be one that can provide evidence on a rare type of super violent explosions, which are known as pair-instability supernovae. This article relates to biology in the sense that it has to do with our solar system, and that there may be another star bigger in mass than our own sun. So that there is another star bigger than our own energy source may just be what we need to continue all life processes.

The Sun is our main energy-life source. The massive star can be one that happens maybe not always. We should care about this discovery because we all thought that there wouldn't be another star that is bigger than our sun. This star can be very useful to our Earth, but with some possible consequences. The star can provide light, if our sun suddenly doesn't "work" normally. There are consequences that may happen with this star. As said before, the star is greater in mass and size than the sun. With this being said, the star can explode any time and can bring a lot of damage. The star's explosion can destroy, hopefully not, our planet and take everything in its path. We should also care about this discovery made by astronomers because the star may one day, if possible, take place of our sun, and be Earth's energy source when the sun is no longer able to do its job.


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2010/07/100721-science-space-most-massive-star-ever-discovered-record/

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