The supergiant, spinning wildly, may have already eaten its neighbor.
. That star cluster — 5,000 lightyears from Earth — is easily the largest in our part of the Milky Way galaxy.
When the researchers took a close look five years ago, they found 42 massive stars that had been hidden behind huge clouds of gas and dust. The bright star would be easily visible from Earth, but the gas reduces the visible light by a factor of roughly 10,000,Of the 42 gigantic stars they found in the cluster, 20395358+4222505 turned out to be the largest.The researchers were taken by surprise in three big ways. First was the sheer size of 20395358+4222505.
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