CW Leonis

CW Leonis is a red giant star that is mostly made out of carbon. It is over 500 times larger than the Sun^[1] and is located in the Leo constellation.

CW Leonis Media

A LINEAR (white-light) light curve for CW Leonis, adapted from Palaversa et al. (2013)
CW Leonis glows from deep within a thick shroud of dust in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

References

↑ Weigelt, G.. IRC+10 216 in action: Present episode of intense mass-loss reconstructed by two-dimensional radiative transfer modeling. Astronomy & Astrophysics 392 (3) (1 September 2002). p. 921–929. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20020954.

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[1] Weigelt, G.. IRC+10 216 in action: Present episode of intense mass-loss reconstructed by two-dimensional radiative transfer modeling. Astronomy & Astrophysics 392 (3) (1 September 2002). p. 921–929. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20020954.

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