The field around yellow hypergiant star HR 5171
HR 5171, the brightest star just below the centre of this wide-field image, is a yellow hypergiant, a very rare type of stars with only a dozen known in our galaxy. Its size is over 1300 times that of the Sun — one of the ten largest stars found so far. Observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer have shown that it is actually a double star, with the companion in contact with the main star.
Credit:ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2
About the Image
| Id: | eso1409a |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 12 March 2014, 12:00 |
| Related releases: | eso1409 |
| Size: | 7412 x 5484 px |
About the Object
Image Formats
Coordinates
| Position (RA): | 13 47 10.91 |
| Position (Dec): | -62° 35' 23.23" |
| Field of view: | 124.43 x 92.06 arcminutes |
| Orientation: | North is 2.6° right of vertical |
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Colours & filters
| Band | Telescope |
|---|---|
| Optical B | Digitized Sky Survey 2 |
| Optical R | Digitized Sky Survey 2 |
| Infrared I | Digitized Sky Survey 2 |