Many red supergiant monster stars lurk in a Milky Way cluster astronomers have discovered with the Gaia space telescope. The cluster, Barbá 2, could help understand why some stars become black holes.

A massive cluster of red supergiants--super-sized stars on the verge of exploding--was recently discovered in the Milky Way by a group of stronomers using infrared technology to penetrate the ...

Like many similar red supergiants, KQ fluctuates slightly in brightness, causing the overall magnitude to change between 4.82 and 5.17. Open cluster M46 lies just over a degree east of M47, so it ...

A massive cluster of red supergiants—super-sized stars on the verge of exploding—was recently discovered in the Milky Way by a group of astronomers using infrared technology to penetrate the thick ...

The famous red supergiant star in the constellation of Orion has been visibly dimming in recent ... More far right and Altair far left in the northern summer sky The Coathanger cluster, Cr399, ...

Astronomers have traced the source of mysterious high-energy X-rays and gamma rays in space to a little known star cluster in the Milky Way. IE 11 is not supported.

Several red supergiants are seen in NGC 884, but are conspicuously absent in NGC 869. Stock 2 is an often overlooked, scattered, and very attractive open cluster for binocular observers. Dan Crowson ...

The scientists looked at stars in the Perseus stellar cluster — a region with a high concentration of stars, particularly red supergiants, located around 7,500 light-years from the solar system ...

When To Watch Mars Hit A Bull’s Eye As It Meets A Red Supergiant Star And A Crescent Moon This Weekend. ... More at left, and the blue Pleiades, at right, two nearby open star clusters in Taurus.

The red supergiant star is nearing the end of its life and will eventually explode as a ... The VST instrument was able to peer through that cosmic haze to investigate the star cluster and W26.