Astronomers Find Huge Stars More Common Than Previously Thought
A survey of a neighboring galaxy turned up 30 percent more super-heavy stars than expected. The discovery has implications for how stars form.
A star-forming region of a nearby galaxy contains more massive stars than scientists had predicted. The discovery, in the so-called Tarantula Nebula, could shake up astrophysicists' ideas about how stars have shaped the universe.
Really massive stars are more than 15 or, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford and the lead author of a new in .
