September 28, 2011 • A rare, yellow
hypergiant star has been photographed by researchers at the European Southern Observatory.
A team of astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured the most detailed images ever of
the hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris.
Their observations point to the explosion of
a hypergiant star with a mass 200 times that of the sun.
A blue
hypergiant star (sometimes 72,000 degrees F) would cool down to a Y dwarf (sometimes around 80 degrees F) if it had to live very long in International Falls, MN, where it's currently -8 F this fourth day of spring.
Not exact matches
But the big surprise among the supergiants was R 136a1, a
star that might be called a
hypergiant.
VY Canis Majoris is a stellar goliath, a red
hypergiant, one of the largest known
stars in the Milky Way.
The
star VY Canis Majoris is a red
hypergiant, one of the largest known
stars in the Milky Way.
Luminosity class 0 or Ia + is used for
hypergiants, class I for supergiants, class II for bright giants, class III for regular giants, class IV for sub-giants, class V for main - sequence
stars, class sd (or VI) for sub-dwarfs, and class D (or VII) for white dwarfs.
New observations of the
star and its surrounding shells using the infrared camera aboard Very Large Telescope (VLT) revealed it is actually a yellow
hypergiant.
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Chin, 2001: Yellow
hypergiants as dynamically unstable post-red supergiant
stars.