La Superba is a
carbon star, which means it's one of the deepest red stars in the sky.
Spectroscopic changes and the variable mean light of
carbon stars Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 286, 839-847.
And finally,
carbon stars are notoriously variable, not just in magnitude but in colour too, and it is probably no more than fortuitous that WZ Cas should happen to have one of the largest numerical values of (B-V) in the database consulted by Mr Ahad.
Decin and her colleagues now plan to extend the observations to other
carbon stars.
Based on an analysis of 110
carbon stars dotted across the sky brighter than magnitude 8.5, (1) I have determined the double star WZ Cassiopeiae (Otto Struve 254) to be the system with the greatest colour contrast, both visually as well as numerically, out of all double stars in the sky.
Object Type RA (J2000.0) Dec GN 02.34.4 Emission Neb 0[2.sup.6] 36.1 -53[degrees]03' NGC 1252 Open Cluster 03 11.4 -57 38 NGC 1261 Glob Cluster 03 12.3 -55 13 TW Horologii
Carbon star 03 12.6 -57 19 NGC 1433 Galaxy 03 42.0 -47 13 NGC 1448 Galaxy 03 44.5 -44 39 Arp Madore 1 Glob Cluster 03 55.0 -49 36 NGC 1510 Galaxy 04 03.5 -43 24 NGC 1512 Galaxy 04 03.9 -43 21 Object Mag Size GN 02.34.4 8.3 250" NGC 1252 8.4 20' NGC 1261 8.3 6.8' TW Horologii 5.7 NGC 1433 9.9 6.5' x 5.9' NGC 1448 10.7 7.6' x 1.7' Arp Madore 1 15.0 1' NGC 1510 12.7 0.9' x 0.9' NGC 1512 10.3 8.9' x 5.6'
Of all the stars recorded by 2MASS, the astronomers chose to analyze
carbon stars first because of three remarkable properties.
But the reddest shades of orange can be found among the
carbon stars: red giants (for the most part) that possess more carbon in their atmospheres than oxygen.
Thus, 119 Tauri remains firmly in second place in the league of all known red supergiants (which excludes
carbon stars) and some have even started to refer to this star as the Ruby Star after my lead.
Stars more massive than the sun end their lives as
carbon stars, which in our galaxy are a rich source of dust.
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Otherwise, the orbits of the
carbon stars would spread out rather than remain in a circle, Ibata says.