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Submitted: July 13, 2011
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Rho Cassiopeiaeby ~DeathCl0ck

Digital Art / 3-Dimensional Art / Scenes / Spacescapes

Rho Cassiopeiae belongs to an unusual class of stars called hypergiants, which are much brighter and many times more massive than Sol. Despite being located some 10,000 light-years away, the star is visible to the naked eye because it is over 500,000 times more luminous than Sol. Like all extremely massive stars, however, hypergiants are very short-lived with a total life of only a few million years. Rho Cas is a yellow hypergiant, which are particularly rare objects as only seven have ever been found in the Milky Way. With surface temperatures between 3,500 and 7,000 °K, yellow hypergiants appear to be stars that are at a very evolved stage of their life and may be close to exploding as supernovae.

Update: Added a planet for perspective.

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*wuestenbrand Jul 2, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Great Work ..

~Zip101 Jul 21, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

Simply stunning, you can feel the heat!

~DeathCl0ck Jul 21, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I know man! Making these things in the blistering heat of summertime is difficult sometimes!

~lilgreekchick69 Jul 17, 2011

BEAUTIFUL!

~boyleo23 Jul 15, 2011

amazing

~DeathCl0ck Jul 14, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I wasn't very happy with the old one... I might change this one around a little bit sometime... Whats funny about this is that the old one is going to be resubmitted as a red dwarf star!