VY Canis Majoris
RED HYPERGIANT · the dying colossus
A hypergiant in its final act. VY Canis Majoris is not just enormous, it is actively flinging huge clouds of gas and dust into space in violent outbursts, wrapping itself in a glowing cocoon of its own shed skin. Each eruption throws off many Earths worth of material. One day, perhaps soon by cosmic clocks, it will go supernova.
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