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    Watching the Death of a Rare Giant Star

    June 21, 2022, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Artist’s impression of the red hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris. Located about 3,009 light-years from Earth, VY Canis Majoris is possibly the most massive star in the Milky Way.NASA / ESA / Hubble / R. Humphreys, University of Minnesota / J. Olmsted, STScI.

    A University of Arizona-led team of astronomers has created a detailed, 3D image of a dying hypergiant star. The team, led by UArizona researchers Ambesh Singh and Lucy Ziurys, traced the distribution, directions and velocities of a variety of molecules surrounding a red hypergiant star known as VY Canis Majoris.

    Their findings, which they presented on June 13 at the 240th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Pasadena, California, offer insights, at an unprecedented scale, into the processes that accompany the death ...

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