The brightest star is undergoing the largest last days of life
Newspaper comprehensive news, the British media recently released photos show a red giant is ejected gas to the space around the material to form a circle similar to the rainbow of brilliant colors.
Fengyun red giant star is Betelgeuse, Orion is one of the most prominent stars. Take this amazing photo equipment is located in Chile European Southern Observatory's telescope.
In the infrared, you can see the star is ejected gas, these substances dispersed in the surrounding space, forming a huge flame-like structure. This indicates that the star has reached the end of life. This is the first human witness this process in detail.
Betelgeuse is a bright red star, which constitutes the Orion's "shoulders." In fact, it is the brightest star in the sky one. But even more special is that it is one of the most massive stars, its diameter is almost equal to Jupiter's orbit, the Earth orbits the equivalent of 4.5 times the diameter. The photograph of this flame-like structure, its scale is far more than Betelgeuse itself: its surface extending outward from the star more than 37 billion kilometers, which is almost equivalent to the distance of Earth to the sun 400 times.
Center of the image that is equivalent to a small circular diameter 4.5 times the day - the distance, which is the body of Betelgeuse. And the black disc is the artificial coronagraph to block the bright light of stars live, allowing us to observe the relatively faint corona around like structure.
Betelgeuse is the brightest star in the sky one, now it is experiencing the last moments of life.
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