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Space Photos of the Week: A Hypergiant Star Gets Too Big for Its Britches
Space photos of the week, March 5 — March 11, 2016.
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A red hypergiant star only three million years old, located within a cluster 15,000 light years away, has a radius over 1,500 that of our sun: If it was in the sun’s position, it would extend beyond Jupiter’s orbit.
