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In their final life stages, red supergiants like WOH G64 shed their outer layers of gas and dust in a process that can last thousands of years.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2024

Some of the stars seen in this image, belonging to the surrounding galaxy, are red supergiants -- stars that are cool but very large, hundreds of times the diameter of our Sun.

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2024

“It points, maybe, to our ignorance about how red supergiants evolve and die in the last few years before explosion.”

From Scientific American • Jul. 21, 2023

Over time, massive stars become red supergiants, and lower-mass stars like the Sun become red giants.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

According to theory, only aging red supergiants, whose outer gaseous layers had turned from blue to red as they expanded and cooled, spawned this type of supernova.

From Time Magazine Archive