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More recently, in 2024, two studies found evidence for a companion star. One study found that a not yet directly-observed, dust-modulating star or white dwarf of 1.17 ± 0.07 M ☉ at a distance of 8.60 ± 0.33 AU would be the most likely solution for Betelgeuse's 2170-day secondary periodicity, fluctuating radial velocity, moderate radius and ...
Widely recognised as being among the largest known stars, [21] radius decreased to ~500 R ☉ during the 2020 great dimming event. [75] R Horologii: 630 [60] L/T eff: A red giant star with one of the largest ranges in brightness known of stars in the night sky visible to the unaided eye. Despite its large radius, it is less massive than the Sun.
Despite their high luminosity, many of them are nevertheless too distant to be observed with the naked eye. Stars that are at least sometimes visible to the unaided eye have their apparent magnitude (6.5 or brighter) highlighted in blue. The first list gives stars that are estimated to be 60 M ☉ or larger
Astronomers setting their sights halfway across the observable universe recently identified the largest amount of individual stars ever detected so far away – a feat once considered near-impossible.
VY Canis Majoris (abbreviated to VY CMa) is an extreme oxygen-rich red hypergiant or red supergiant (O-rich RHG or RSG) and pulsating variable star 1.2 kiloparsecs (3,900 light-years) from the Solar System in the slightly southern constellation of Canis Major.
There are somewhere around 300 billion stars in our galaxy, so if the discovery of a single star is enough to make headlines, you better believe it's an impressive one. Scientists at the European ...
R136a1 (short for RMC 136a1) is one of the most massive and luminous stars known, at nearly 200 M ☉ and nearly 4.7 million L ☉, and is also one of the hottest, at around 46,000 K. It is a Wolf–Rayet star at the center of R136 , the central concentration of stars of the large NGC 2070 open cluster in the Tarantula Nebula (30 Doradus ) in ...
First spotted in 2016, the disk around a star 1,000 light-years away was not confirmed to be a hotbed for new, emerging planets until recent obs Astronomers find the biggest known batch of planet ...