Believe it or not, VY Canis Majoris is less than 10 million years old. Compared to our middle-aged, 4.6 billion-year-old Sun, it’s extremely young, but it’s already in the midst of dying.

The first is codenamed Canis Majoris, while the other is codenamed Sirius. Canis Majoris and Sirius are the codenames representing two upcoming titles in The Witcher series. CD Projekt Red refers ...

We have examined high signal-to-noise ISO LWS observations of the luminous supergiant star, VY CMa, with the aim of identifying all of the spectral lines. By paying particular attention to water lines ...