Astronomers have discovered a vast and expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star—the largest structure of its kind ever seen in the Milky Way. The bubble, which contains as ...

Red supergiants are known to lose material through strong stellar winds, but not usually on such a massive scale in such a short span of time. One possibility is that the star has a hidden partner. A ...

Astronomers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a huge expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star. It's the largest structure of its kind ever seen ...

The star, called DFK 52, is a member of a cluster of similar red supergiants, but it's losing mass at an extreme rate never seen before. A red supergiant star has expelled the largest cloud of gas and ...

Red supergiant DFK 52 and its surroundings as seen by ALMA. The vast, complex bubble blown by this extreme star is about 1.4 light years across, thousands of times wider than our Solar System. ALMA ...

Astronomers found the Milky Way's largest gas-and-dust bubble, shed by a red supergiant 4000 years ago, raising questions about how the star survived. (Nanowerk News) Astronomers from Chalmers ...