Quote Originally Posted by Gumby
It looked like an average star but when they tried to look at it specifically they realized that it was much further away but still as bright and big.
Got anymore info? Location? Telescope and technique used? There have been NUMEROUS times where massive stars with over 100 solar masses have been discovered... later to be resolved as a binary system or simply bad data.

I hate to hijack a Christina thread with science... but, oh well...