WOH G64
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Star WOH G64 |
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| Artist's impression of the dust disc around WOH G64 | |||
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Observation dates equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Constellation | Swordfish | ||
| Right ascension | 04 h 55 m 10.48 s | ||
| declination | −68 ° 20 ′ 29.8 ″ | ||
| Apparent brightness | 9.69 likes | ||
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| Spectral class | M5-7.5 Ia | ||
| Astrometry | |||
| distance | 163 000 Lj 51 800 pc |
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| Visual absolute brightness M vis | −9.8 mag | ||
| Physical Properties | |||
| Dimensions | 16 to 22 M ☉ | ||
| radius | 1540 R ☉ | ||
| Luminosity |
approx. 280,000 L ☉ |
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WOH G64 is one of the largest known stars . It is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud , a companion galaxy to the Milky Way, and can be found in the constellation Swordfish , which is located in the southern hemisphere.
WOH G64 is a red hypergiant around which a thick dust ring with a diameter of about 30,000 AU has formed. The star , which has already lost a large part of its original mass due to the ejection of matter into the dust ring, will explode as a supernova in about 1,000 to 10,000 years .
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