It is a hypergiant luminous blue variable (LBV) star of spectral type B1Ia + that is one of the most luminous stars in the Milky Way galaxy and is located about 5000 to 6000 light years from Earth.
It is a hypergiant luminous blue variable (LBV) star of spectral type B1Ia +. This hypergiant luminous blue variable (LBV) star of spectral type B1Ia + is one of the most luminous stars in the Milky Way galaxy. This hypergiant luminous blue variable (LBV) star of spectral type B1Ia + is located about 5000 to 6000 light years from Earth.