IRAS 17163-3907

IRAS 17163-3907 is a star that belongs to the class of the yellow star hypergiants. IRAS 17163-3907 is 13,000 light-years away from Earth, and is located in the constellation Scorpio. Yellow giants are extremely rare stars which do not have the required mass to be a so-called luminous blue variable star.

To IRAS 17163-3907 is a cloud of dust, which absorbs a large part of the emitted light in the visible light range; in the infrared region, they give it an appearance similar to a fried egg, which as it is also termed.