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Image: Comparison of the sizes of a red dwarf, the Sun, a B-type main sequence star, and R136a1

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Description: relative sizes of young stars, from the smallest “red dwarfs”, weighing in at about 0.1 solar masses, through low mass “yellow dwarfs” such as the Sun, to massive “blue dwarf” stars weighing eight times more than the Sun, as well as the 300 solar mass star named R136a1
Title: Comparison of the sizes of a red dwarf, the Sun, a B-type main sequence star, and R136a1
Credit: http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1030c/
Author: ESO/M. Kornmesser
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