If you look at the history of VY Canis Majoris and its high mass-loss episodes, this is stuff occurring on the timescale of a human life.” These high mass-loss events referenced by Dr. Humphreys ...

New observations from the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chilecaught VY Canis Majoris in greater detail than ever before as the giant star shed mass.

This revealed hidden details of the processes involved at the end of hypergiant stars' lives, including details about how VY Canis Majoris sheds mass. "You don't see this nice, symmetrical mass ...

But the unusually high mass of VY CMa would probably result ... there aren’t many more than 10 hyper giants recorded thus far. As for VY Canis Majoris, we can only wait and see what will happen ...

"In VY Canis Majoris -- 30 [times the] mass of [the] sun and 300,000 more luminous -- this is much more extreme," she said. "These gaseous outflows may be as much as 10 times the mass of Jupiter." ...

The red hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris, 4,000 light-years distant, is in a turbulent phase near the end of its life. Wracked by pulsations, it is expelling mass in a series of dusty knots and arcs.

This staggering image shows how our sun - which is so big it accounts for 99.86% of the mass in the solar system - would look next to the biggest star in the universe. VY Canis Majoris is so large ...

Mass. Astronomers have long sought to understand the massive outßow from VY Canis Majoris, which cannot be observed in detail because the star is too distant for telescopes to obtain a clear picture.

This week’s quiz: on 8 November, I asked you a question about the largest known star, VY Canis Majoris, (“Big Dog”). You were to send in the name of the constellation to which VY Canis ...

sporadic mass loss events that form complex, highly irregular structures composed of arcs, clumps and knots. Located about 3,009 light-years from Earth, VY Canis Majoris -- or VY CMa, for short ...

Astronomers combined the Hubble and Keck information to produce a three-dimensional image of the matter emitted from VY Canis Majoris. “We thought mass loss in red supergiants was a simple ...