Science Podcast | Stars, the atoms of the universe

There are white, yellow, brown, red, blue and even black. They can be dwarfs, giants or supergiants. Some seem to follow James Dean’s famous phrase in ‘Knock on any door’: ‘live fast, die young and leave a pretty corpse’. Others burn slowly, for countless millions of years, burning like almost eternal embers at the same time that many of their sisters die violently as supernovas, the largest explosions in the entire Universe.

But they all have something in common. They are stars, and their enormous variety, like the human races on Earth, has populated the Cosmos since the beginning of time. Until now, the largest star ever observed is UY Scuti, 1,700 times larger than the Sun. If we placed it in the center of the Solar System, its perimeter would reach Saturn.

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