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The Skeptics Guide #934 - Jun 3 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Biggest Star in the Universe

R136A1 has 300 solar masses, 600 nine million kilograms. That's between octillion and decatilium. It's as massive as they get as far as we can actually directly see. Some of the earliest stars billions of years ago were far more massive than even R136A1. They could have potentially formed in these huge dense clouds of gas in proto-glabriolar clusters.

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