But what about the biggest star in the universe? You're going to need more than just a telescope to get a glimpse of this hypergiant star. Here is what you need to know about the biggest star in ...

Hypergiant star amazes for 30 years Date: December 9, 2012 Source: Royal Observatory of Belgium Summary: Astronomers have published the results of a 30-year study of an extraordinary hypergiant ...

A powerful telescope in Chile has imaged the largest yellow star ever discovered. The star, called HR 5171 A, shines 12,000 light-years from Earth in the center of a new image released today.

The biggest star in the universe (that we know of), UY Scuti is a variable hypergiant with a radius around 1,700 times larger than the radius of the sun. To put that in perspective, the volume of ...

The fried egg — a massive star surrounded by a double, outer ring of gaseous dust — is the closest yellow hypergiant star found neighboring Earth to date. Yellow hypergiants are rare ...

HR 5171, the brightest star just below the centre of this wide-field image, is a yellow hypergiant, a very rare type of stars with only a dozen known in our galaxy. Its size is over 1,300 times ...

But now, with the new SPHERE data, we have found large grains of dust around this hypergiant. These are big enough to be pushed away by the star's intense radiation pressure, which explains the ...

The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) has revealed the largest yellow star — and one of the 10 largest stars found so far. This hypergiant ...

"But now, with the new SPHERE data, we have found large grains of dust around this hypergiant," Scicluna added. "These are big enough to be pushed away by the star's intense radiation pressure ...

A University of Arizona-led team of astronomers has created a detailed, three-dimensional image of a dying hypergiant star. The team, led by UArizona researchers Ambesh Singh and Lucy Ziurys ...

In examining the massive red hypergiant VY Canis Majoris ... In the case of the smaller star, researchers say that the dimming was due to an outflow of gas that may have formed dust which ...

Using the Very Large Telescope, scientists have realized that this hypergiant star is actually the largest yellow star ever found -- and they caught it in a very rare moment. Scientists and ...