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Astronomers report the rapid transition of WOH G64 from a red supergiant to a yellow hypergiant, based on photometric and spectroscopic observations published in Nature Astronomy.

WOH G64 has always been an oddball. It sits in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way, and it ranks among the most extreme red supergiants known.

The star’s surface temperatures had increased by more than 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,800 Fahrenheit), turning its signature red color to yellow. It also shrank as a result of becoming hotter, going ...

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Massive stars, reaching the end of their lives, turn into red supergiants and explode as supernovae, the brightness of which ...

Astronomers report a supergiant star in the Andromeda Galaxy, M31-2014-DS1, collapsed directly into a black hole without a supernova, confirming predictions of failed stellar explosions.

Time-domain astronomy is the study of how astronomical objects change with time. Changes may be due to movement or physical changes in the object itself. Examples include pulsar variability, and the ...

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Star, named WOH G64, is 28 times the mass of the sunIt resides in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxyThe star was observed evolving from red to yellowWASHINGTON, March 2 — ...