Located in the constellation Orion, the irregular variable star FU Ori is a true "cosmic glutton", astronomers say, who have calculated the amount of matter absorbed by the star over the past eighty years.
From 1936 to 2016, the FU Ori star "ate" a huge mass of matter. If you measure this mass, for example, "in Jupiters", then you get something about eighteen - writes information resource ToDay News Ufa.
The supergiant of spectral class G, registered in astronomical catalogs under the index FU Ori, until 1936 was the most ordinary star, to look at which, somehow, no one wanted to look especially attentively.
Then something happened - the brightness of the luminary increased two hundred and fifty times. That is, simply to an incredible extent - if our Sun decided to increase the intensity of its glow in this way, then we would simply be fried.
Astronomers initially thought that FU Ori went supernova. But no - it is located in the region of active star formation and is a young star. In general, it turned out that the star FU Ori absorbed the disk of dust and gas that surrounded it. From which planets could form over time. But no - now the glutton star will exist alone.
Kolesnikov Andrey