Gallery: Space Photos of the Week: A Hypergiant Star Gets Too Big for Its Britches
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A red hypergiant star only three million years old, located within a cluster 15,000 light years away, has a radius over 1,500 that of our sun: If it was in the sun’s position, it would extend beyond Jupiter’s orbit.
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In this binary star system, two stars waltz around their shared center of gravity, completing an orbit around each other once every 800 years. Their orbit through gaseous material creates the spiral shape seen here.
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Over the Sea of Okhotsk in Russia, clouds drift above ice and snow along the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, home to 29 active volcanoes.
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In the foreground, this image shows the galaxy cluster Abell 2744. In the upper left lies a faint galaxy rich in dust, A2744\_YD4, inset in red.
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This massive viscous feature on Mars is bound by high ridges, indicating that it was once an ice-rich deposit.
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This satellite image shows Kourou in French Guiana, 310 miles north of the equator.
