Located 25,000 light-years from Earth, this star is 100 times larger than the Sun.
“It’s nowhere”: A few days ago, an international team of astronomers discovered an extraordinary star. Defender. Located 25,000 light-years from Earth near the center of the Milky Way, this star is actually 100 times larger than the Sun.
VVV-VIT-08, the name given to it, thanks to the Chile-based Vista telescope of the Southern European Lab. If Cambridge astronomers have not discovered it until now, it is because this star is a “variable” star.
That is, the British Daily explains that its brightness varies over time. In fact, the latter lost 97% of its light between 2012 and 2021. But in the last 100 days it has suddenly regained all its brightness, which is enough to challenge scientists.
This temporary darkness can be explained by the proximity of a planet or a star, which is surrounded by a disk of opaque dust. It then acts like an eclipse, making VVV-VIT-08 invisible from Earth.
Astronomers have specifically spotted two nearby “glowing” stars, but there is no more accurate information about them.
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