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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.
English: Size comparison of evolved red supergiant star Stephenson 2-18, extreme red hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris and luminous red supergiant star UY Scuti. Bahasa Indonesia: Perbandingan ukuran bintang super raksasa merah berevolusi Stephenson 2-18, bintang hypergiant merah ekstrim VY Canis Majoris dan bintang super raksasa merah bercahaya ...
English: Size comparison between VY Canis Majoris and Earth (via the Sun) by zooming in three times. The colours of the stars have been chosen based roughly on their surface temperatures. s.mcateer.id.au
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Very Large Telescope image of the surroundings of the red hypergiant VY Canis Majoris. An OH/IR star is an asymptotic giant branch (AGB) or a red supergiant or hypergiant (RSG or RHG) star that shows strong OH maser emission and is unusually bright at near-infrared wavelengths.
VY Canis Majoris (VY CMa) is a red hypergiant star located in the constellation Canis Major.One of the largest stars and also one of the most luminous of its type, it has a radius of approximately 1,420 ± 120 solar radii (equal to a diameter of 13.2 astronomical units, or about 1,976,640,000 km), and is situated about 1.2 kiloparsecs (3,900 light-years) from Earth.
Very Large Telescope image of the surroundings of VY Canis Majoris. Canis Major is also home to many variable stars. EZ Canis Majoris is a Wolf–Rayet star of spectral type WN4 that varies between magnitudes 6.71 and 6.95 over a period of 3.766 days; the cause of its variability is unknown but thought to be related to its stellar wind and ...