They are among the true monsters of space - colossal stars whose size and brightness go well beyond what many scientists thought was even possible. Continue reading the main story “ Start Quote Planets take longer to form than these stars take to live and die” End Quote Prof Paul Crowther Sheffield University, UK One of the objects, known simply as R136a1, is the most massive ever found. The star is seen to have a mass about 265 times that of our own Sun; but the latest modelling work suggests at birth it could have been bigger, still. Perhaps as...