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Red supergiants develop deep convection zones reaching from the surface over halfway to the core and these cause strong enrichment of nitrogen at the surface, with some enrichment of heavier elements. [26] Some red supergiants undergo blue loops where they temporarily increase in temperature before returning to the red supergiant state. This ...
UY Scuti is a dust-enshrouded bright red supergiant [16] and is classified as a semiregular variable with an approximate pulsation period of 740 days. [5] [17] [18] Based on an old radius of 1,708 R ☉, this pulsation would be an overtone of the fundamental pulsation period, or it may be a fundamental mode corresponding to a smaller radius. [19]
A very luminous red supergiant, Mu Cephei is among the largest stars visible to the naked eye, and one of the largest known cool supergiants. It is a runaway star with a peculiar velocity of 80.7 ± 17.7 km/s, [16] and has been described as a hypergiant. [4]
Pictures show how the stars look during a period known as the cosmic noon - the middle ages of the universe when the most stars were born. ... called red supergiants, are very difficult to observe ...
It is a type of massive star called a red supergiant. "Its estimated mass means it has lived for about 10 to 20 million years, and will soon die," van Loon said.
Stephenson 2, also known as RSGC2 (Red Supergiant Cluster 2), is a young massive open cluster belonging to the Milky Way galaxy. It was discovered in 1990 as a cluster of red supergiants in a photographic, deep infrared survey by the astronomer Charles Bruce Stephenson, after whom the cluster is named.
VY Canis Majoris is a candidate for a star in a second red supergiant phase, but this is mostly speculative and unconfirmed. [66] From this star CO emission is coincident with the bright KI shell in its asymmetric nebula. The star will produce either: a moderately luminous and long-lasting type IIn supernova (SN IIn) a hypernova; or a
Betelgeuse is a red supergiant that has evolved from an O-type main-sequence star. After core hydrogen exhaustion, Betelgeuse evolved into a blue supergiant before evolving into its current red supergiant form. [173] Its core will eventually collapse, producing a supernova explosion and leaving behind a compact remnant. The details depend on ...