Through observations of one of the largest stars known to exist in the Milky Way, a red hypergiant known as VY Canis Majoris, astronomers have been able to unravel the mystery as to how enormous stars shed vast quantities of mass prior to meeting their end in a cataclysmic supernova explosion.
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