This artist’s impression of hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris shows the star’s vast convection cells and violent ejections. VY Canis Majoris is so large that if it replaced the Sun, the star would ...

This staggering image shows how our sun - which is so big it accounts for 99.86% of the mass in the solar system - would look next to the biggest star in the universe. VY Canis Majoris is so large ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — About 5,000 light years away across our Milky Way galaxy, a highly brilliant star called VY Canis Majoris has long been thought to have smoke in its eyes because most of its light ...

The hypergiant VY Canis Major is no longer visible to the naked eye Researchers used Hubble images to determine the cause of the dimming It's quite similar to Betelgeuse's dimming Scientists have ...

There are many different objects that have always grasped my imagination; be it Saturn’s rings, the mystical shapes of nebulae, the plethora of strange exoplanets, and of course, Luna. But there are ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new map of one of the most massive stars in our galaxy is shedding light on what happens in the ...

New findings from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have helped astronomers to solve the mystery of why Orion's bright red supergiant Betelgeuse dramatically faded for a period of weeks last year. In ...

Through observations ofone of the largest stars known to exist in the Milky Way, a redhypergiant known as VY Canis Majoris, astronomers have been able tounravel the mystery as to how enormous stars ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- About 5,000 light years away across our Milky Way galaxy, a highly brilliant star called VY Canis Majoris has long been thought to have smoke in its eyes because most of its light ...

In the southern hemisphere, in the constellation Canis Major, lies a very young, very massive red hypergiant star called VY Canis Majoris (VY CMa). A pulsating variable, its apparent magnitude (how ...

This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the quiz about VY Canis Majoris. There’s also a special Christmas story for you - and of course, the new quiz question. So click on that ...