Hypergiant
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A hypergiant is a very rare type of star that has an extremely high luminosity, mass, size and mass loss because of its extreme stellar winds. The term hypergiant is defined as luminosity class 0 in t
Great nebula in Carina, surrounding Eta Carinae
Very Large Telescope image of the surroundings of VY Canis Majoris
Field surrounding the orange hypergiant star HR 5171 A
G299 Remnants Super Nova Type 1a 20150218
WOH G64
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WOH G64 is a symbiotic binary in the Large Magellanic Cloud, roughly 50 kiloparsecs from Earth.
Hypergiant
…Westerlund 1 W26 WOH G64 A (in LMC) - potentially the largest star known in the Large Magellanic Cloud and possibly the largest known overall Lists of astronomical objects…
VLTI image of the dusty torus around WOH G64. Credit: European Southern Observatory
Magellanic Cloud
Artist's impression of the dusty torus and elliptical cocoon of dust surrounding WOH G64 (European Southern Observatory)