Astronomers have spotted the largest yellow star ever observed in our galaxy and 1,300 times larger than the sun. The yellow hypergiant star HR 5171 A is also in the top-10 of the largest stars known and about one million times brighter than the sun…
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Just a couple of years ago, indirect evidence (“signatures”) of gigantic cosmic “tendrils”, or filaments, was discovered lurking around distant galactic formations. Vast in scale but invisible, such filamentous structures apparently account…
Astronomers said Sunday they had for the first time seen the gas strands theorised to hold the universe together in a “cosmic web”. They had used the intense radiation generated by a quasar — a byproduct of a supermassive black hole — acting as a…