• A post-AGB star (pAGB, abbreviation of post-asymptotic giant branch) is a type of luminous supergiant star of intermediate mass in a very late phase of...
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    The asymptotic giant branch (AGB) is a region of the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram populated by evolved cool luminous stars. This is a period of stellar...
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    star, not just the normal background nebulosity associated with any massive star forming region, and not a planetary nebula formed by a post-AGB star...
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  • Antliae, a post-AGB star in Corona Borealis UX Arietis, a triple star system UX Lyncis, a dim, red-hued star in Lynx UX Tauri, a binary star system LG...
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    RV Tauri (category Objects with variable star designations)
    a class of pulsating variables known as RV Tauri variables. It is a post-AGB star and a spectroscopic binary about 4,700 light years away. RV Tau was...
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    A super-AGB star is a star with a mass intermediate between those that end their lives as a white dwarf and those that end with a core collapse supernova...
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    planetary nebulae in Sagitta: NGC 6886 is composed of a hot central post-AGB star that has 55% of the Sun's mass yet 2,700±850 times its luminosity, with...
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    other large cool stars such as immediate post-AGB stars. The RGB stars are by far the most common type of giant star due to their moderate mass, relatively...
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    IRAS 08544−4431 (category Objects with variable star designations)
    correspond to the orbital motion. The primary star is thought to be a post-AGB star, a highly evolved star that has ceased fusion and is ejecting its outer...
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    silicate carbon star, likely of the J-type. Another evolved star is EP Lyrae, a faint RV Tauri variable and an "extreme example" of a post-AGB star. It and a...
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    Hypergiant (redirect from Hypergiant star)
    characteristic variability. Brightest star of the OB association Scorpius OB1 and a LBV candidate. May just be a closer post-AGB star. de Jager, C. (1998). "The...
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    the table. It may be a thermal-pulsing AGB star, observed in a helium-burning phase instead of a post-AGB star. SS Gem is likely to be a population I...
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    planetary nebula, it has been suggested that the nebula wasn't created by a post-AGB star shedding its outer shells but it is interstellar medium photoionised...
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    47 Tucanae (category Bright Star Catalogue objects)
    100 times that of the Sun, and is aptly known as the "Bright Star". It is a post-AGB star, having passed the asymptotic giant branch phase of its life...
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    HD 101584 (category Objects with variable star designations)
    visual magnitude of about 7. The primary is either a post-AGB star, but more likely a post-RGB star. The secondary is a red dwarf or possibly a low-luminosity...
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  • EC 11507-2253 (category Post-asymptotic-giant-branch stars)
    EC 11507-2253 is a post-AGB star located about 81,000 light years, or 25 kpc, away from Earth in the constellation of Corvus. Located in the distant galactic...
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    2 Cassiopeiae (category Bright Star Catalogue objects)
    researchers have suggested that it is a post-AGB star. 2 Cassiopeiae has a number of close companions listed in multiple star catalogues, but none are thought...
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    Normally this kind of AGB carbon star fuses hydrogen in a hydrogen burning shell, but in episodes separated by 104–105 years, the star transforms to burning...
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    U Monocerotis (category Objects with variable star designations)
    variable star and spectroscopic binary in the constellation Monoceros. The primary star is an RV Tauri variable, a cool luminous post-AGB star evolving...
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    During the AGB phase, stars undergo thermal pulses due to instabilities in the core of the star. In these thermal pulses, the luminosity of the star varies...
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    (15.0 ± 3.3 kly) distant from Earth, and is composed of a hot central post-AGB star that has 55% of the Sun's mass yet 2700 ± 850 its luminosity, with a...
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    Supergiant (redirect from Supergiant Star)
    luminosities comparable to supergiants. Asymptotic-giant-branch (AGB) and post-AGB stars are highly evolved lower-mass red giants with luminosities that...
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    Stingray Nebula (category Objects with variable star designations)
    van de Steene, G. C. M.; Sahu, K. C. (January 1993). "SAO 244567 : a post-AGB star which has turned into a planetarey nebula within the last 40 years"...
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  • 20, 2020. AGB Nielsen ratings: "Ep. 1". AGB Nielsen Media Research (in Korean). October 17, 2020. Retrieved August 23, 2021. "Ep. 2". AGB Nielsen Media...
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  • containing technetium belong to the class of asymptotic giant branch stars (AGB)—stars that are like red giants, but with a slightly higher luminosity, and...
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    HR 4049 (category Objects with variable star designations)
    and AG Antliae, is a binary post-asymptotic-giant-branch (post-AGB) star in the constellation Antlia. A very metal-poor star, it is surrounded by a thick...
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    An OH/IR star is an asymptotic giant branch (AGB) or a red supergiant or hypergiant (RSG or RHG) star that shows strong OH maser emission and is unusually...
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    PZ Cassiopeiae (category Objects with variable star designations)
    possible less massive O-rich S- or SC-type Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) or post-AGB star. It shows enrichment of Zr and Ba, but not Li as would be expected...
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    after the 2.2 micron infrared sky survey. In 1989, it was analysed as a post-AGB star and assumed to have a luminosity of 9,600 L☉ and a distance around 1...
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    Nebula, whose spectral class F5 star has not yet begun to ionize the nebula material. "Westbrook Nebula -- Post-AGB Star". SIMBAD. Centre de Données astronomiques...
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