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The largest known star, UY Scuti, is so big that it would take 1,700 years to walk around it at normal walking speed.
This hypergiant star has a radius more than 1,700 times that of our Sun. If placed at the center of our solar system, it would extend beyond Jupiter's orbit. Despite its massive size, it's not the most massive star known - that title belongs to R136a1, which has more mass but a smaller radius.
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There’s a galaxy that’s shooting out a jet of water equivalent to 58 trillion Pacific Oceans.
A quasar called APM 08279+5255 contains a supermassive black hole surrounded by a massive vapor cloud. The black...
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The Sun contains 99.86% of all the mass in our solar system.
Despite the planets, asteroids, comets, and other objects in our solar system, almost all the mass is contained...
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There’s a planet covered in lava oceans with winds seven times the speed of sound.
K2-141b is a planet so hot that it has oceans of molten rock and supersonic winds made of...