This book reviews the importance of massive stars in several areas of astrophysics. Massive stars are objects that are 10-100 times the mass of our Sun. Above ten solar masses, loss through stellar ...

and magnetic fields that influence the evolution of massive stars. WOH G64 is nearing the end of its life as a red supergiant. The enhanced mass loss observed in this star is a precursor to core ...

A Laboratory for Understanding Massive Stars Westerlund 1 is not just a snapshot of the Milky Way’s past star formation but ...

Supermassive star ... massive stars packed in a relatively small region, Westerlund 1 is a tantalizing target for astronomers aiming to better understand a range of stellar phenomena and the ...

Artwork: What the star might have looked like before its disappearance Astronomers have been baffled by the disappearance of a massive star they had been observing. They now wonder whether the ...

Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars in Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky Way, finally be resolved? Omega Centauri is a massive star cluster with ...