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 ...

A blue ‘supergiant’ nine billion light years away is the most distant single star ever to be observed by astronomers. Usually at such distances scientists can only image galaxies, collections ...

Discovery of a Possibly Single Blue Supergiant Star in the Intra-cluster Region of Virgo Cluster of Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal , 2013; 767 (2): L29 DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/767/2/L29 Cite ...

few blue supergiants that vary in brightness because of waves were known. But if you look at the brightness of an individual star for long enough with a very sensitive detector, you can map out ...

"Until now, we had not seen these waves causing shimmering and twinkling on the surface of blue supergiants. You need to be able to look at the brightness of an individual star for long enough ...

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 ...

The blue supergiant star is one of the final burning phases before the death of a massive star. With surface temperatures of between 20,000 and 50,000 degrees Celsius, blue supergiant stars are ...

One of the most captivating parts of astronomy is studying distant stars and comparing them to our own, which brings us to one of the most critical aspects of this research: what makes a blue ...

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 ...