If that is what happened and the process resembles one seen in similar stars called blue supergiants, then it might be a sign that the star is decades or years away from exploding. “If we can ...

The two giants riding along with Orion are Rigel, a blue-white supergiant star marking his right knee and Betelgeuse, a red supergiant marking his left shoulder. The colours are clearly visible.

Orion’s right foot star is Rigel, the seventh brightest star. Rigel is a blue-white supergiant and is by far the brightest of the 10 brightest stars in terms of actual magnitude. It ranks ...

It was a young, hot, bright blue star, what they call a blue supergiant, twinkling in the dwarf galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud. But there are many such stars, and there was nothing ...