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    images of the star, R Doradus, were obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in July and August 2023. They show giant, hot bubbles of gas, 75 times the size of the Sun, appearing on the surface and sinking back into the star’s interior
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    images of the star, R Doradus, were obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in July and August 2023. They show giant, hot bubbles of gas, 75 times the size of the Sun, appearing on the surface and sinking back into the star’s interior


    images of the star, R Doradus, were obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in July and August 2023. They show giant, hot bubbles of gas, 75 times the size of the Sun, appearing on the surface and sinking back into the star’s interior



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    2. allisonmaybe on

      That description doesn’t paint a good picture. The image just looks like lens aberration. What’s the artist representation?

    3. the_fungible_man on

      For reference, R Doradus

      * is 178 light years away,
      * has a mass equal to or slightly *less* than the Sun,
      * takes 57 years to rotate on its axis,
      * has a diameter of ~410 million km,
      * would fill the inner solar system out to around the orbit of Mars.

    4. gimmeslack12 on

      Makes me curious if a common shape of a star is more of a non-spherical blob rather than the spherical shape that we tend to think of. Probably depends on the state of the lifecycle of the star in question.

    6. Flompulon_80 on

      This is so incredible. I remember textbooks portraying giants/supergiants as looking like larger versions of the sun, but that has changed.