Questions tagged [hypergiants]
A hypergiant (luminosity class 0 or Ia+) is a star with an enormous mass and luminosity, showing signs of a very high rate of mass loss.
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How big could a regular star in supergiant/hypergiant phase theoretically get, not counting quasi-stars?
For clarity, I'm not asking about the super-behemoths that are quasi-stars. I'm interested in knowing how large a regular star could theoretically get once it reached supergiant/hypergiant phase, ...
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Where is the habitable zone of a Hypergiant?
Where would an Earthlike planet need to be so it's still in the 'Habitable Zone' of a hypergiant Star, compared to the distance of the Earth from the sun?
Could complex life develop or survive on such ...
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Why don't (or can't) stars be more than 325 or so times the mass of the sun? What limits their size?
Is there a particular reason why stars cannot grow as massive as they want to?
And why doesn't this limit apply to supermassive black holes?
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What is the brightest star (relative magnitude) in M31?
I am wondering what the brightest individual star is in M31, the Andromeda Galaxy. Specifically, brightest as seen from Earth (so relative magnitude).
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How massive can a star be at birth? [duplicate]
We have discovered some incredibly massive stars. R136a1, the most massive known star is estimated to have 265 times mass as our Sun. Yet it has been burning for at least a million years, and must ...
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