A Super Superstar.

• Autores: Charles Choi
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 290, Nº. 3, 2004, págs. 34-34
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses how the Palomar telescope has spied what appears to be the brightest star yet known, a giant so oversized that it defies current theories. Some 45,000 light-years from Earth, LBV star 1806-20 weighs about 150 times as much as the sun, although present theory holds that stars of more than 120 solar masses could not coalesce, because their nuclear fires should burn off the excess. The colossus is surrounded by what the astronomers call "a zoo of freak stars," such as a rare magnetic neutron star. The scientists presented their findings at the January meeting of the American Astronomical Society.