VY Canis Majoris
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VY Canis Majoris is an extreme oxygen-rich red hypergiant or red supergiant and pulsating variable star 1.2 kiloparsecs from the Solar System in the slightly southern constellation of Canis Major. It
VY Canis Majoris, Rutherford Observatory, 07 September 2014
Portrait in bust of Jérôme Lalande in 1802
VLBA used to derive VY CMa's 2011 distance estimate
VY Canis Majoris compared to the Sun and the Earth's orbit
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
VY Canis Majoris
…VY Canis Majoris (abbreviated to VY CMa) is an extreme oxygen-rich red hypergiant or red supergiant (O-rich RHG or RSG) and pulsating variable star 1.2 kiloparsecs (3,900 light-years) from the Solar System in the slightly southern…
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