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HR 5171, the brightest star just below the center of this image, is a yellow hypergiant, a very rare type of stars with only a dozen known in our galaxy. Its size is more than 1300 times that of the Sun--one of the ten lartgest stars found so far. Observations with ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer have shown that it is actually a double star, with the companion in contact with the main star. Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2
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Rare Double Star - Desktop Nexus SpaceDownload free wallpapers and background images: Rare Double Star. Desktop Nexus Space background ID 1716135. HR 5171, the brightest star just below the center of this image, is a yellow hypergiant, a very rare type of stars with only a dozen known in our galaxy. Its size is more than 1300 times that of the Sun--one of the ten lartgest stars found so far. Observations with ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer have shown that it is actually a double star, with the companion in contact with the main star. Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 24.1
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