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  • Watch: Nearby star blows bubbles the size of 75 Suns

    09/13/2024 11:45:25 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 12 replies
    New Atlas ^ | September 12, 2024 | Michael Irving
    ALMA images of the star R Doradus, taken on different days, show the movements of giant convection bubbles each as big as 75 Suns...ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/W. Vlemmings et al. ================================================================================== The Sun is the biggest fish in our small pond of a solar system, but it’s a mere minnow compared to the whales that dwell out in the cosmos. New telescope images show a gigantic star casually blowing bubbles 75 times bigger than our Sun. The matter in our neighborhood is distributed pretty unevenly – the Sun hogs some 99.8% of all mass in the solar system, making our planets look...