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S Doradus is a blue hypergiant star found in the large magellanic cloud. Its temperature can fall to lower than 7,000 degrees Kelvin in big eruptions. S Doradus can be more than a million times brighter than our Sun and 380 times larger in these eruptions.

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  • Eso1021d

    Large Magellanic Cloud. NGC 1910 is labelled near the centre of the image, and S Doradus is clearly visible at full size. (Credit: Robert Gendler/ESO)

  • SDoradus light curve long

    Light curve of S Doradus from 1987 to 2016, showing slow variations with a deep minimum in 2011

  • SDoradus light curve short

    Light curve of S Doradus from 2012 to 2016, showing the microvariations superimposed on a slow rise from the deep 2011 minimum

  • Lbv

    The S Doradus Instability strip and outburst region in the H–R diagram, showing S Doradus at minimum and maximum under the assumption of constant luminosity

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