"The speed at which this doomed stellar system is lurching wildly, likely due to the extreme brightness, is a frantic sign of ...
Betelgeuse has a companion star! This revelation was surprising; there had been speculation about the existence of a companion star because Betelgeuse's brightness has shown periodic variations—one ...
High in the Milky Way, a dying giant has thrown astronomers a cosmic curveball. A star known as DFK 52, sitting in the massive Stephenson 2 cluster about 19,000 light-years away, has been caught ...
There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the ...