Behemoth _ Is This the Largest Star in the Universe
A star that makes our Sun look like a grain of sand. A stellar monster so vast that if it replaced the Sun, its surface would stretch past the orbit of Jupiter. This is Behemoth. And it may not be the largest.In 2024, astronomers captured the first detailed image of a star outside our galaxy — WOH G64, nicknamed the Behemoth star [citation:6][citation:10]. Located 163,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, this red supergiant measures approximately 1,500 times the diameter of our Sun [citation:1][citation:8]. For years, scientists watched its brightness dim and thought a…
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