R136a1
Wolf-Rayet star · the heaviest star known
163,000 light-years from Earth
Between 200 and 300 times the mass of the Sun and about 7 million times as bright. Stars this heavy blow themselves apart with winds of thousands of km/s and live only a few million years.
- ~46,000 K surface · 43 times the Sun's radius
- its wind carries off an Earth's mass every few months
- kind
- star
- size
- 0.4 AU across
More stars & stellar remnants
- SN 1987A core-collapse supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud
- SGR 1806-20 magnetar
- S2 and the S-stars stars orbiting the black hole
- Stephenson 2-18 red supergiant
- WR 124 Wolf-Rayet star shedding its skin
- Eta Carinae hypergiant binary inside the Homunculus Nebula
- Crab Pulsar neutron star
- UY Scuti red supergiant