Planet Hyper giant stars
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juliapot11
Is it possible to detect planets around stars Hyper giants type of WOH G64 in our and (or) neighboring galaxies?
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davidbundy77
Detecting planets around giant stars is generally more difficult than around normal or dwarf stars because the planet is very much smaller than the star. Transiting planets around giant stars only cause a tiny drop in the total brightness which makes them very difficult to detect.
The largest stars with confirmed planets on the NASA Exoplanet Archive were detected using the radial velocity method. The largest star listed has a radius 51 times that of the sun, which is still far smaller than WOH G64. So the answer to your question is that detection of planets around hyper giants is well beyond our current capabilities.
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juliapot11
It seems to me that such a giant planet must be the size of our sun or, at least, with red dwarf in the future when WOH G64 will be a black hole around it, it is possible to see a small star cluster.
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