Thursday 6 October 2011

Dying Gigantic Star

ESO has just released new pictures of a giant star. This monster star has a diameter of thousands of times larger than our Sun. Like what? It has approximately 13 thousand light years from Earth. It is a nearby Earth had just observed, new data showed the star shines around 500 thousand times brighter than the Sun.

"This object is able to shine brighter in the infrared, however, no one managed to identify it as before," says astronomer Eric Lagadec at the European Southern Observatory (ESO).




It has the nickname of Fried Egg Nebula because it forms a ring around the star of this gas.

Scientists say, it was found dead and will die with the death of supernova explosion as fierce as the UPI reported.

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