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Monster Star Is Born, Baby Is 100 Times More Massive Than Our Sun
Scientists have observed in unprecedented detail the birth of a massive star within a dark cloud core about 10,000 light years from Earth. New observations using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter array (ALMA) have given astronomers the best view yet of a monster star in the process of forming within a dark cloud. A stellar womb with over 500 times the mass of the Sun has been found — the largest ever seen in the Milky Way — and it is still growing. The embryonic star within the cloud is hungrily feeding on material that is racing inwards.
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