VY Canis Majoris (abbreviated to VY CMa) is an extreme oxygen-rich red hypergiant or red supergiant (O-rich RHG or RSG) and pulsating variable star 1...

stars of great distance and high luminosity. At magnitude 1.5, Epsilon Canis Majoris (Adhara) is the second-brightest star of the constellation and the brightest...

within the Canis Major constellation, including: Sirius (Alpha Canis Majoris), the brightest star in the terrestrial sky VY Canis Majoris, one of the...

UW Canis Majoris is a star in the constellation Canis Major. It is classified as a Beta Lyrae eclipsing contact binary and given the variable star designation...

(2007) to state that it might be an extreme red hypergiant, much like VY Canis Majoris. It is also stated that Stephenson 2 DFK 1 is on the brink of ejecting...

{\displaystyle q=2\times 10^{-3}} in the long-period variable M star VY Canis Majoris in the H band, ascribing the CP to multiple scattering in circumstellar...

order of 1,000 to 2,000 R☉. Mu Cephei VV Cephei A NML Cygni S Persei VY Canis Majoris - potentially the largest star in the Milky Way KY Cygni PZ Cassiopeiae...

"Fundamental properties and atmospheric structure of the red supergiant VY Canis Majoris based on VLTI/AMBER spectro-interferometry". Astronomy and Astrophysics...

PC, PC2, HCP and PH3. It was detected in the circumstellar shell of VY Canis Majoris and in the star forming region catalogued as AFGL 5142. The compound...

sometimes used for the most extended and unstable red supergiants like VY Canis Majoris and NML Cygni. The "red" part of "red supergiant" refers to the cool...

C.H.; Spears, D.L. (1977). "Spatial heterodyne tnterferometry of VY Canis Majoris, Alpha Orionis, Alpha Scorpii, and R Leonis at 11 microns". Astrophysical...

Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, Vernon, Vermont, United States VY Canis Majoris, an enormous star VY Piscium or HR 515, a variable star Viy (disambiguation)...

in multiple star catalogues. List of most massive stars VV Cephei VY Canis Majoris Perryman, M. A. C.; et al. (April 1997). "The HIPPARCOS Catalogue"...

"Fundamental properties and atmospheric structure of the red supergiant VY Canis Majoris based on VLTI/AMBER spectro-interferometry". Astronomy & Astrophysics...

have been very massive Population III stars. Such stars would dwarf VY Canis Majoris, Mu Cephei and VV Cephei A, three among the largest known modern stars...

type IIb, IIn, or type Ib/Ic supernova. Stephenson 2 DFK 1 WOH G64 VY Canis Majoris Hog, E.; Kuzmin, A.; Bastian, U.; Fabricius, C.; Kuimov, K.; Lindegren...

P.; Lopez, GB; Cruzalebes, P.; et al. (1999). "The Last Gasps of VY Canis Majoris: Aperture Synthesis and Adaptive Optics Imagery". The Astrophysical...

difficult. B90, another red supergiant in the Large Magellanic Cloud VY Canis Majoris, considered to be possibly the largest star in the Milky Way NML Cygni...

rim near VY Canis Majoris". Astrophysical Journal. 219: 95–97, 99–104. Bibcode:1978ApJ...219...95L. doi:10.1086/155758. "Starshine in Canis Major". www...

Detection of AlO (X2Σ+): Metal Oxide Chemistry in the Envelope of VY Canis Majoris", Astrophysical Journal, 694 (1): L59–L63, Bibcode:2009ApJ...694L....

Size comparison of some well-known supergiant and hypergiant stars, featuring Cygnus OB2-12, V382 Carinae, Betelgeuse, VV Cephei, and VY Canis Majoris...

to that of another notable but more extreme cool hypergiant star, VY Canis Majoris, and is also known as a heavily mass-losing OH/IR supergiant. It is...

with a blue dwarf companion. 2 Tm – 13.2 au – estimated diameter of VY Canis Majoris, a red hypergiant that is among the largest-known stars 2.9 Tm – 19...

relatively short period of astronomical time. Very large stars like VY Canis Majoris, one of the largest stars known, together with NML Cygni, VX Sagittarii...

(constellation) Quadrans Muralis Atlas Coelestis Officina Typographica VY Canis Majoris Hockey 2009, p. [page needed]. Chisholm 1911, p. 95. Grier, David Alan...

Red supergiants like Betelgeuse, Antares, Mu Cephei, VV Cephei, and VY Canis Majoris one of the biggest stars in the Universe, are the biggest variety of...

retrieved 18 November 2009: "5.3e+02 solRad" Humphreys, Roberta M.; VY Canis Majoris: The Astrophysical Basis of its Luminosity, arxiv.org, 13 October 2006...

the Sun, Antares is dwarfed by even larger red supergiants, such as VY Canis Majoris or VV Cephei A and Mu Cephei. Antares, like the similarly sized red...

such as AA Tauri as well as TW Hydrae, IRC +10216 and APM 08279+5255, VY Canis Majoris and S Persei. Liquid water is present on Earth, covering 71% of its...

value for the other red supergiants in the study. F13 is compared with VY Canis Majoris as a similarly extreme red supergiant, both displaying stronger and...