Related: 1 in 12 stars might have swallowed a planet There is a clue as to the nature of blue supergiants: They exist alone, with no gravitationally bound companion star. This is odd, because the ...

A blue supergiant (BSG) is a hot, luminous star, often referred to as an OB supergiant. They have luminosity class I and spectral class B9 or earlier. Blue supergiants are found towards the top left ...

Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, and it’s a “monster star” surrounded by a cocoon ...

The star, known as WOH G64 ... seen in the same galaxy in 1987 to every astronomer’s surprise was a blue supergiant that had exploded. The Hubble Space Telescope soon revealed it had indeed ...

If that is what happened and the process resembles one seen in similar stars called blue supergiants, then it might be a sign that the star is decades or years away from exploding. “If we can ...

WOH G64 is a red supergiant 160,000 light-years from Earth demonstrating erratic behavior over the last decade ...

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

According to the paper, the sample of identified candidates in the Andromeda galaxy consists of 134 yellow supergiants (YSGs), 62 blue supergiants ... The mass of this star was estimated to ...

The previous record-holder, Icarus, also a blue supergiant star spotted by Hubble, formed 9.4 billion years ago. That’s more than 4 billion years after the Big Bang. In both instances ...

Like a performer preparing for their big finale, a distant star is shedding its outer layers and preparing to explode as a supernova. Astronomers have been observing the huge star, named WOH G64, ...

The star, known as WOH G64, is 160,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic ... “What we do know, is that one such ...