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Scientists Discover the LARGEST Star in the Universe

Our Sun is pretty big. In fact, it’s so big that about a million Earths could fit inside it. But how does our life-sustaining ball of plasma compare to some of the other giants out there? When you start to think about it, the scale of it all becomes almost incomprehensible.

Some stars are a thousand times larger than our sun. Others are millions of times larger. And the biggest are nearly 10 billion times larger than a sun that’s already a million times the size of our pale blue dot.

We’re taking a look at the largest star in the known universe, Stephenson 2-18 (St2-18).

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  1. Star formation is one of the least comprehended phenomenon in astrophysics. There is a number of models based on computer simulations. Different concepts of accretion are the cornerstones of the theoretical models of star formation. There are monolithic collapse, disk accretion, competitive accretion scenario and others. However there is no observational support of infall in the amount sufficient for star formation at present. In presented model of the star formation the fragmentation of elastons with cascading down of its energy is a source of the process. It is based on the elastonic model of the space. https://www.academia.edu/14720924/The_Star_Formation