It is one of the biggest red supergiants, the largest stars we know of. These are massive, cool stars that have run out of hydrogen fuel in their core and instead burn an envelope of hydrogen gas ...
An investigation using the star-surveying Gaia space telescope revealed that the Barbá 2 is packed with red supergiant stars ...
ABSTRACT Near‐infrared images obtained with the CFHTIR imager on the Canada‐France‐Hawaii Telescope are used to investigate the brightest red stars in the disk of the nearby spiral galaxy M81. Red ...
The star was a red supergiant star, and while not the brightest or biggest stars out there, they are massive in volume. In fact, the scientists say the star was at least 10 times more massive than ...
Could the giant star Betelgeuse have a buddy? A Betelbuddy? Betelgeuse, the second-brightest star in the constellation Orion, ...
Astronomers chalk this up to the star’s swelling and shrinking, a standard practice among stellar beings driven ... we’ll soon know if this iconic red supergiant is truly sharing the stage.