Giant star

As much as some of us love to prepare for Christmas and spend quite some time decorating our home, not everyone might feel the same enthusiasm when it comes to waiting for the holidays.

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Astronomers have gotten their best look yet at the surface of a red giant star.

53.3K likes, 610 comments. “DIY star tree topper✨ Who knew a giant star was so easy to make! You don’t even have to use it as a tree topper. Why not hole punch instead and hang it😍 The only thing to mention is you need to start your star off with a square paper instead of a4. I just cut mine to size. Then follow the video and glue together once you have 6 pieces! DONT WORRY if the paper doesn’t align perfectly. All of the folds are at the back!!”

Scientists published research related to a red giant star explosion they witnessed in real-time-- a first for the history of astronomy.

Since the beginning of human history, people have understood that the sun is a central part of life as we know it. It's importance to countless mythological and cosmological systems across the globe is a testament to this. But as our understand of it matured, we came to learn that the sun was here long before us, and will be here long after we're gone. Having formed roughly 4.6 billion years ago, our sun began its life roughly 40 million years before our Earth had formed.

Shop LED stars at Christmas Night Inc., like this large star in cool white by Holiday Lighting Specialists.

Arcturus is 113 times brighter than our sun, even though it's only a little bigger. What else should we know about this red giant?

Information on the super-giant star Rigel, its temperature, mass, radius, luminosity, distance from Earth and other fascinating facts and statistics.

Blue giant star