* Astronomy

The two heaviest stars ever have been discovered in the southern Milky Way galaxy. The double super heavyweights are actually in orbit around each other, and both break the record 83 times the suns mass for the most massive stars found to date. The heavier of the two weighs in at a whopping 114 "so...

Sher 25 is an old blue supergiant star located approximately 20,000 ly from the sun. Its Apparent magnitude is 12.2 and it is a B spectral type. It is part of the constellation Carina. This star as commonly thought to be nearing the point of exploding as a supernova and is located in H II region NGC 3603. [...

ESO is releasing a magnificent VLT image of the giant stellar nursery surrounding NGC 3603, in which stars are continuously being born. Embedded in this scenic nebula is one of the most luminous and most compact clusters of young, massive stars in our Milky Way, which therefore serves as an excellen...

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Binary Star NGC3603 A1 binary system ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Stars/galaxy News	10	10467	Sep 20 23:36 2008 by Blobrana
The two heaviest stars ever have been discovered in the southern Milky Way galaxy. The double super heavyweights are actually in orbit around each other, and both break the record 83 times the suns mass for the most massive stars found to date. The heavier of the two weighs in at a whopping 114 "so...
Giant NGC3603 B supergiant Sher 25 (Preview)	Stars/galaxy News	2	4210	Apr 7 19:38 2013 by Blobrana
Sher 25 is an old blue supergiant star located approximately 20,000 ly from the sun. Its Apparent magnitude is 12.2 and it is a B spectral type. It is part of the constellation Carina. This star as commonly thought to be nearing the point of exploding as a supernova and is located in H II region NGC 3603. [...
NGC NGC3603 NGC 3603 ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Stars/galaxy News	13	11854	Mar 13 13:36 2017 by Blobrana
ESO is releasing a magnificent VLT image of the giant stellar nursery surrounding NGC 3603, in which stars are continuously being born. Embedded in this scenic nebula is one of the most luminous and most compact clusters of young, massive stars in our Milky Way, which therefore serves as an excellen...