A space telescope (Spitzer Telescope) took a picture of a group of stars in other galaxies. One of the stars is believed to size 20 times larger than the sun. Stefan Kraus, NASA researcher, and Ann Arbor, an astronomer from the University of Michigan, said that the discovery was in order to examine how the big stars were born in another universe.
As stated in the official page of NASA, Wednesday, July 14, 2010. Kraus said that NASA’s space telescope (Spitzer) recorded a star called IRAS 134281-6124. The images was also supported by the observation from the station telescope in Chile. The star is located in the constellation Centaurus, which is 10,000 light years. IRAS mass 20 times larger than the sun. Kraus said that this was the first time such a thing could be monitored.
Through the images, the researchers also saw that the star is surrounded by a collection of gas and dust that look like disks.
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