However, the most massive star observed to date is the blue supergiant R136a1, which contains at least 265 times as much matter as the sun. The highest mass stars, greater than three times the sun ...

"The newly born stars live as blue supergiants throughout the second-longest phase of a star's life, when it burns helium in its core." Astronomers may have solved the mystery of how some of the ...

Astronomers have captured the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy ... in 1987 to every astronomer’s surprise was a blue supergiant that had exploded. The Hubble Space Telescope ...

NASA artistic image of a binary system of a red giant star and a younger companion. Blue supergiants may be formed by two stars in a binary system merging. NASA artistic image of a binary system ...

Artistic image of a binary system of a red giant star and a younger companion that can merge to produce a blue supergiant. B-type blue supergiants are very luminous and hot stars (at least 10,000 ...

The supernova is the remnants of a blue supergiant star called Sanduleak–69 202. It was believed to hold a mass about 20 times that of the sun before the explosion was detected in February 1987.