Giant Star Discovered: 265 Times Bigger Than Sun

in Tarantula Nebula in the large Magellanic cloud, a galaxy which is a neighbour to our milky way, a huge star is shining which is the brightest and biggest star known yet.

At a distance of 165,000 lightyears, this star known as R136a1 is 265 times as massive as our solar system’s sun and a 10 million times brighter than it. It was about 320 times bigger than sun when it was formed but gradually shrunk with time. The star was observed by a team of researchers led by Paul Crowther, an astrophysicist based at University of Sheffield. They used the telescope in Chile which belongs to European Southern observatory and hubble telescope from NASA.

This discovery has made scientists believe even bigger stars exist as this is one of the first of its size they have seen so far and more actually may be present.