Hypergiant

This graph of data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the composition of a monstrous disk of what may be planet-forming dust circling the colossal "hypergiant" star called R 66. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Instead, she widens the frame to an astronomical scale of eleven, to show us our galactic neighbor, a hypergiant, intensely luminous blue star that seems well on its way to exploding into a supernova. source ❋ Unknown (2009)

The discovery was made through NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observations of two hypergiant stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud -- the Milky Way's nearest neighboring galaxy -- by a team led by Joel Kastner, a professor at Rochester Institute of Technology ❋ Unknown (2006)

Disks encircling hypergiant stars may spawn planets in inhospitable environment ❋ Unknown (2006)

"People had noticed this object glowing brightly before, but no one had identified it as a yellow hypergiant," says astronomer ❋ Unknown (2011)

The entire body of the nebula - a yellow hypergiant "yolk" surrounded by "egg white" clouds of dust - sits about 13,000 light-years away from Earth. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The fried egg - a massive star surrounded by a double, outer ring of gaseous dust - is the closest yellow hypergiant star found neighboring Earth to date. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In this graph, or spectrum, light from the dust surrounding hypergiant R 66 is plotted according to its component wavelengths (white line). ❋ Unknown (2010)

The hypergiant stars, called R 66 and R 126, are located about 170,000 light-years away in our Milky Way's nearest neighbor galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. ❋ Unknown (2010)

DNA and RNA, as well as ATP, an energy storing molecule hypergiant. ❋ JacobB (2010)

It is what is called a red hypergiant - a highly evolved object that is exhausting its nuclear fuel. ❋ Unknown (2009)

About 220 million years ago, deep within the galaxy NGC 266, a blue hypergiant star exploded. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"VY Canis Majoris (VY CMa) is a red hypergiant star located in the constellation Canis Major. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Seriously, Adam could be the first Herculean, hypergiant, 'Idol' superstar. " ❋ Unknown (2009)