Dan on Nostr: I captured the Garnet Star back in May. It is a red hypergiant 3,000 light years away ...
I captured the Garnet Star back in May.
It is a red hypergiant 3,000 light years away nearing the end of its life. Weighing in at 19x the mass of the sun, it is glowing 100k times brighter and is 1k times the diameter of our sun!
It is expected to supernova (implode) sometime relatively soon, and will likely collapse into a black hole when this occurs.
This target isn’t frequently imaged which is a shame.
#astrophotography #Astrodon #space #astronomy #photography #astrophysics
It is a red hypergiant 3,000 light years away nearing the end of its life. Weighing in at 19x the mass of the sun, it is glowing 100k times brighter and is 1k times the diameter of our sun!
It is expected to supernova (implode) sometime relatively soon, and will likely collapse into a black hole when this occurs.
This target isn’t frequently imaged which is a shame.
#astrophotography #Astrodon #space #astronomy #photography #astrophysics