Betelgeuse and its gas plume,illustration. Betelgeuse,a red supergiant,is one of the largest stars currently known,with a radius around 1400 times larger than the Sun's. This supergiant star has a giant plume of gas almost as large as the solar system,and a massive bubble boiling on its surface. These structures were detected using the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). This discovery helps to explain how supergiant stars shed material at a tremendous rate. Betelguese is located around 600 light years from Earth,in the constellation of Orion. For this image with labels and a scale,see C048/0819. Image published in 2009. | |
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