Astronomers have yet to fully understand how the most massive stars -- those more than 100 times the mass of the Sun -- are formed. One particularly challenging piece of this puzzle is obtaining ...

Nestled in the center of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud is the largest star yet discovered. With the help of the Zorro imager and the power of the 8.1-meter Gemini South telescope ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope once captured the biggest star ever found in the galaxy, which was previously thought to be 250 to 320 times more massive than the Sun. But a new study claims that the ...

This comparison image shows the exceptional sharpness and clarity of the Zorro imager on the 8.1-meter Gemini South telescope in Chile (left) when compared to an earlier image taken with the NASA/ESA ...

Using a combination of instruments on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered the most massive stars to date, one weighing at birth more than 300 times the mass of the Sun, or twice as ...

Nestled in the center of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud is the largest star yet discovered. With the help of the Zorro imager and the power of the 8.1-meter Gemini South telescope ...

Astronomers have identified the most massive stars known. These objects are millions of times brighter than our Sun and the largest of them all is a whoppin’ 300 times the mass of our favorite star.

Astronomers have yet to fully understand how the most massive stars—those more than 100 times the mass of the sun—are formed. One particularly challenging piece of this puzzle is obtaining ...