Giant star

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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Astronomers have gotten their best look yet at the surface of a red giant star.

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Scientists published research related to a red giant star explosion they witnessed in real-time-- a first for the history of astronomy.

Since the beginning of human history, people have understood that the sun is a central part of life as we know it. It's importance to countless mythological and cosmological systems across the globe is a testament to this. But as our understand of it matured, we came to learn that the sun was here long before us, and will be here long after we're gone. Having formed roughly 4.6 billion years ago, our sun began its life roughly 40 million years before our Earth had formed.

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Blue giant star

Remember in late 2019, when the famous red star Betelgeuse suddenly and mysteriously began dimming in brightness? Astronomers studying a similar star - VY Canis Majoris, one of the largest and brightest stars in our galaxy - commented that it's "behaving a lot like Betelgeuse on steroids."

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