#  Astronomers Seek Biggest Stars 

 





June 14, 2012

 

 

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Listen to this [Podcast](http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=astronomers-seek-biggest-stars-12-06-11) from [Scientific American](http://www.scientificamerican.com/). How big can a star get? Based on observations, astronomers think there's a limit of about 150 times the mass of the sun for the vast majority of stars.

Listen to a discussion about stars that may have with masses of up to 600 suns according to a study submitted to the *Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society*. \[Tony Pan and Abraham Loeb,"[Identifying Stars of Mass 150 Msun from Their Eclipse by a Binary Companion](http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1050)"



 

 

 



 

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