Red giant star (IMAGE)

Royal Astronomical Society

Red giant star

Caption

Infrared images of a red giant star about 30,000 light years away, near the centre of our Milky Way galaxy, that faded away and then reappeared over the course of several years.

Credit

Philip Lucas/University of Hertfordshire

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License

Public Domain

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