Astronomers have been studying star WOH G64 for a while. It’s a red supergiant in the galaxy next door, the Large Magellanic Cloud, and it is believed to be in the last stages before going ...
It's the end of life for massive stars that started out between about 8 and 35 times the mass of the Sun. As the star runs out of nuclear fuel to fuse in its core, it becomes unstable, burning very ...