The universe is populated with a number of amazingly massive stars, many of which dwarf our own Sun. One of the most well known is VY Canis Majoris, which is one of the most sizable stars in the known ...

Astronomers have discovered that the hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris is shedding 30 Earthloads of dust a year in a massive weight loss programme before it goes supernova. The supersized red star ...

Scientists now possess the most detailed image yet of a dying giant: VY Canis Majoris, quite possibly the largest star in our galaxy. VY Canis Majoris is a red hypergiant, a class of star so massive ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new view of one of the largest known stars in the Milky Way gives the skinny on how giant stars ...

Our sun is huge compared to the Earth, capable of holding more than one million blue planets. The sun is small compared to some other stars in our galaxy, however. Stars like VY Canis Majoris, located ...

Astronomers have published the results of a 30-year study of an extraordinary hypergiant star. They have found that the surface temperature of the super-luminous star HR 8752 increased by about 3000 ...

The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. Get ready, there are a lot of surprises and superlatives in this one. Using the Very Large ...

Astronomers have used the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) to image a colossal star that belongs to one of the rarest classes of stars in the universe, the yellow ...

HR 5171 is a yellow hypergiant, a very rare type of stars with only a dozen known in our galaxy. Its size is over 1,300 times that of the Sun and?? one of the ten largest stars found so far. Credit: ...

The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) has revealed the largest yellow star — and one of the 10 largest stars found so far. This hypergiant measures more ...

Note to editor: Images available at http://www.rit.edu/~930www/pics/Hypergiants/. Captions and contacts at bottom of release. The discovery of dusty disks—the ...

(Nanowerk News) A European research team has published the results of a 30-year study of an extraordinary hypergiant star. They have found that the surface temperature of the super-luminous star HR ...