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, Mu Cephei ...
Abstract: We study the properties of jets launched by a neutron star (NS) spiralling inside the envelope and core of a red supergiant (RSG). We propose that Thorne–Żytkow objects (TZO) are unlikely to ...
"And yet there's still room to make significant new discoveries: in this case, a sunlike star hiding in plain sight, in the immense glare of a red supergiant. That is what excites me the most." ...
The red supergiant star Betelgeuse, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: Andrea Dupree (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) / Ronald Gilliland (STScI) / NASA / ESA Humanity has marveled at the vivid ...
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