Disks encircling hypergiant stars may spawn planets in inhospitable environment

[Orstio]

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The discovery of dusty disks--the building blocks of planets--around two of the most massive stars known suggests that planets might form and survive in surprisingly hostile environments.

This illustration compares the size of a gargantuan star and its surrounding dusty disk (top) to that of our solar system.

The discovery was made through

[Astronuc]

That's amazing! 

I wonder if that star is really that big, and what the uncertainty is on that size.

One of a few papers on hypergiant stars - http://www.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de/meeting/talks/Zickgraf.pdf