WASHINGTON, D.C. — About 5,000 light years away across our Milky Way galaxy, a highly brilliant star called VY Canis Majoris has long been thought to have smoke in its eyes because most of its light ...
There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the width of the sun. If it were placed in our solar system, it would stretch to ...
This week’s first small-telescope target is the gorgeous double star ADS 5951 in the constellation Canis Major. You’ll find this star 3° east of magnitude 3.0 Omicron2 (ο 2) Canis Majoris. The primary ...