US EditionA Supergiant that Could Explode: the Mystery of Woh G64
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160,000 light-years away, a cosmic drama takes place that keeps astronomers in breath worldwide. A star, so large that it would reach to our Jupiter, behaves strangely. But what we see could be a tremendous deception. read more on t3n.de
Astronomers who published an investigation in the journal 'Nature Astronomy' claim that WOH G64, a supergiant in the Great Magellan Cloud, is losing mass unusually.
A new study published in Nature Astronomy shows that one of the largest known stars, named WOH G64, underwent a spectacular transformation in 2014 from red supergeant to yellow hypergeante. This sudden change could be a sign of an imminent supernova. WOH G64 was first discovered in the 1970s as an interesting star in the Magellan Great Cloud, the satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It turned out that this star was not only extremely bright, but i…
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