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SPACE-STAR-HR-5171
A handout photo released on March 10, 2014 by the European Southern Observatory shows the HR 5171, the brightest star just below the centre of this wide-field image, which is a yellow hypergiant, a very rare type of stars with only a dozen known in our galaxy. Its size is over 1300 times that of the Sun — one of the ten largest stars found so far. Observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer have shown that it is actually a double star, with the companion in contact with the main star. AFP PHOTO / ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2
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SPACE, SPACE |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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Digitized Sky Survey 2 |
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12 Martie 2014 |
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5412 x 4004 (3.73 MB) |
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