An investigation using the star-surveying Gaia space telescope revealed that the Barbá 2 is packed with red supergiant stars, stars that can be hundreds of times wider than the sun and up to ...

WOH G64 is a red supergiant star 2,000 times larger than our sun, which has led astronomers to call it the “behemoth star.” During the final stages of their lives, red supergiants shed their ...

a red supergiant star located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy that neighbors the Milky Way. The image is ...

One of the largest known stars, UY Scuti is a red supergiant with a radius 1,700 times that of the Sun, located 9,500 light-years away. Known as “Herschel’s Garnet Star” due to its red hue ...

Using four telescopes linked together, astronomers have captured an astonishing image of a huge star more than 160,000 light years away ...

Astronomers have been able to look at the sun and a handful of other stars ... and the extreme red supergiant phase it is in, for such a massive star, also doesn't last as long.

Jupiter at opposition dazzles as a “Christmas Star,” shining its brightest this holiday season. Here's why it’s so brilliant ...

The image gives us a closer view of a red supergiant star outside our galaxy that's about 2,000 times the size of the Sun and may look familiar to Lord of the Rings fans. Skip to Main Content Menu ...

The observations found that J085039 is a HMXB consisting of a neutron star and a red supergiant companion of spectral type M2-3. This makes it only the second known galactic X-ray binary with a ...