Astronomers have captured the death of a red supergiant star for the first time. The real-time discovery was published Jan. 6 in Astrophysical Journal and led by researchers at Northwestern ...

A group of scientists announced Thursday that they captured the explosive end to a red supergiant star's life for the first time, documenting its death throes as it collapsed into a type II supernova.

A red supergiant star transitions into a type II supernova in this animation. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko | ...

One popular red supergiant star is Betelgeuse, which has captured interest due to its irregular dimming.While it was predicted that Betelgeuse may go supernova, it’s still around.

Venus continues to be the “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, albeit it has become dimmer — but still bright — as it ...

Many red supergiant monster stars lurk in a Milky Way cluster astronomers have discovered with the Gaia space telescope. The cluster, Barbá 2, could help understand why some stars become black holes.

“For the first time, we watched a red supergiant star explode!” said Wynn Jacobson-Galán, an NSF Graduate Research Fellow at UC Berkeley and lead author of the study.

Red supergiants are supergiant stars of spectral type K-M and a luminosity class of I. They are the largest stars in the universe in terms of physical size, although they are not the most massive.

Antares, a red supergiant star in the constellation Scorpius, shines as the bright-red sparkle at the center of the image. (Image credit: Babak Tafreshi/TWAN) A "wily companion" star .

One is that the star appears to be in the Small Magellanic Cloud. If it's not, then some of the measurements of its properties will be off, meaning it may not be a red supergiant—and thus not a TZO.

Hubble Sees Red Supergiant Star Betelgeuse Slowly Recovering After Blowing Its Top Seething Monster Star Had Never-Before-Seen Titanic Eruption. News Release. August 11, 2022. This illustration plots ...

Betelgeuse, the famous orange-red star shining prominently against the twinkling cohort of the Orion constellation, will soon go dark.. The supergiant star will take a notable absence from Orion's ...