VY Canis Majoris - Wikipedia
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 constellation of Canis Major.
Zoom into VY CMa - HubbleSite
Mar 4, 2021 · VY Canis Majoris is not seen in this view, but the tiny red square marks the location of the hypergiant, and represents the diameter of the solar system out to the orbit of Neptune, which is 5.5 billion miles across.
Hubble Solves Mystery of Monster Star's Dimming | ESA/Hubble
Mar 4, 2021 · VY Canis Majoris is not seen in this view, but the tiny red square marks the location of the hypergiant, and represents the diameter of the solar system out to the orbit of Neptune, which is 5.5 billion miles across.
The Red Hypergiant VY CMa --- Betelgeuse on Steroids
VY Canis Majoris is obscured by dust and not visible in this view, but the tiny red square marks the location of the hypergiant and represents the diameter of the solar system out to the orbit of Neptune, which is 60 AU or 9 billion km across.
VY Canis Majoris - EarthSky
Astronomers studying a similar star - VY Canis Majoris, one of the largest and brightest stars in our galaxy - commented that it's "... behaving a lot like Betelgeuse on steroids." Some...
VY Canis Majoris Star Facts - Universe Guide
VY Canis Majoris is a red very luminous supergiant star in the constellation of Canis Major. It is too faint to be seen in the southern hemisphere night sky without a telescope. VY Canis Majoris distance from Earth is 1832.38 light years away.
Detailed Images of the Hypergiant Star VY Canis Majoris
Nov 27, 2015 · Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a team of astronomers has captured the most detailed images ever of the hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris. These new observations show how the unexpectedly large size of the particles of dust surrounding the star enable it to lose an enormous amount of mass as it beg
Massive Star VY Canis Majoris - Visible Light | ESA/Hubble
Jan 8, 2007 · Massive Star VY Canis Majoris - Visible Light Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory, Kameula, Hawaii, astronomers have learned that the gaseous outflow from one of the brightest super-sized stars in the sky is more complex than originally thought.
VY Canis Majoris - Constellation Guide
Dec 4, 2015 · This wide-field view shows the sky around the very brilliant red hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris, one of the largest stars known in the Milky Way. The star itself appears at the centre of the picture, which also includes clouds of glowing red hydrogen gas, dust clouds and the bright star cluster around the bright star Tau Canis Majoris towards ...
Wide-field view of the sky around VY Canis Majoris | ESO
Nov 25, 2015 · This wide-field view shows the sky around the very brilliant red hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris, one of the largest stars known in the Milky Way.