Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the mass-losing supergiant VY Canis Majoris

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1592-1598

  Kastner, Joel H ^a   Weintraub, David A ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dust, extinction; Stars: individual (VY Canis Majoris); Stars: mass loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007318627     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/300297     Document Type: Article

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