VV Cephei, also known as HD 208816, is an eclipsing binary star system located in the constellation Cepheus. It is both a B[e] star and shell star. VV...

hypergiant, together with the red supergiants Mu Cephei, MY Cephei, VV Cephei, V381 Cephei, and V354 Cephei are among the largest stars known. In addition...

Viva Air Perú (former IATA code: VV), a former Ukrainian airline v/v (volume by volume), the volume fraction VV Cephei, a star system Vorontsov-Vel'yaminov...

Mu Cephei (Latinized from μ Cephei, abbreviated Mu Cep or μ Cep), also known as Herschel's Garnet Star, Erakis, or HD 206936, is a red supergiant or hypergiant...

Scorpii A). Examples of eclipsing binaries are Epsilon Aurigae (Almaaz), VV Cephei, and V766 Centauri (HR 5171). Angular diameter measurements can be inconsistent...

than other famous red supergiants such as Antares A, Betelgeuse, VV Cephei A, Mu Cephei, VY Canis Majoris, and WOH G64. Nevertheless, its size remains uncertain...

blue stars Spica and Rigel, the red supergiants Betelgeuse, Antares, and VV Cephei A; the yellow hypergiant Rho Cassiopeiae; the luminous blue variable Eta...

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Tsuji, T. (2000). "Water on the Early M Supergiant Stars α Orionis and μ Cephei". The Astrophysical Journal. 538 (2): 801–07. Bibcode:2000ApJ...538..801T...

to their large size. Red supergiants like Betelgeuse, Antares, Mu Cephei, VV Cephei, and VY Canis Majoris one of the biggest stars in the Universe, are...

Size comparison of some well-known supergiant and hypergiant stars, featuring Cygnus OB2-12, V382 Carinae, Betelgeuse, VV Cephei, and VY Canis Majoris...

red supergiants, such as VV Cephei A and the peculiar star VY Canis Majoris at 1,200–1,900 R☉ and more than 3,000 R☉. V354 Cephei, based on a MARCS model...

Estimated diameter of VV Cephei A, a red supergiant with a blue dwarf companion. 1.75 Tm – 11.7 au – Estimated diameter of Mu Cephei, a red supergiant (possibly...

dwarfed by even larger red supergiants, such as VY Canis Majoris or VV Cephei A and Mu Cephei. Antares, like the similarly sized red supergiant Betelgeuse in...

stellar association Cepheus OB2, located one degree south-southwest of VV Cephei. NGC 7160 is a young cluster, whose age is estimated to be between 10...

supergiants, with radii on the order of 1,000 to 2,000 R☉. Mu Cephei VV Cephei A NML Cygni RW Cephei S Persei VY Canis Majoris - potentially the largest star...

supergiant stars in the Milky Way are class M stars, such as VY Canis Majoris, VV Cephei, Antares, and Betelgeuse. Furthermore, some larger, hotter brown dwarfs...

notably includes evolved blue and red supergiants such as Nu Cephei, Mu Cephei, and VV Cephei. van Leeuwen, F. (2007), "Validation of the new Hipparcos reduction"...

of the Sun. These are hence also referred to as red hypergiants: Mu Cephei VV Cephei A NML Cygni S Persei UY Scuti VY Canis Majoris Westerlund 1 W26 WOH...

Delta Cephei (itself the prototype) and Polaris are Cepheid variables and yellow supergiants. Antares and VV Cephei A are red supergiants. μ Cephei is considered...

completing a doctorate in astronomy in 1962. His thesis was titled "The system VV cephei," and his doctoral advisor was Dean Benjamin McLaughlin. His thesis work...

Sirius 4. Sirius < Pollux < Arcturus < Aldebaran 5. Aldebaran < Rigel < Antares < Betelgeuse 6. Betelgeuse < Mu Cephei < VV Cephei A < VY Canis Majoris....

peculiarity of numerous bright lines. It appears similar to the spectrum of VV Cephei (HR 8383), an eclipsing binary. P. Swings and O. Struve in 1941 discovered...

binary with components Aa and Ab orbiting every 280 years. It forms a VV Cephei-type binary system with a hot companion which is accreting mass from the...

light-years from Earth. ν Cephei is a member of the Cepheus OB2 stellar association, which includes stars such as μ Cephei and VV Cephei. It began life as an...

Size comparison of supergiant and hypergiant stars, including Cygnus OB2 #12, V382 Carinae, Betelgeuse, VV Cephei, and VY Canis Majoris...

been listed as a member of the open cluster ASCC 123. U Lacertae is a VV Cephei binary consisting of a red supergiant and a small hot companion. The companion...

blue variable (LBV). This is the star Zeta puppis. The red supergiant VV Cephei stars were defined as a class by Bidelman in 1954. In this artist's conception...

Pavlovski, K. (2021). "A β Cephei pulsator and a changing orbital inclination in the high-mass eclipsing binary system VV Orionis". Monthly Notices of...

transferred from the cool supergiant. This type of binary is referred to a VV Cephei system, although in this case there are no eclipses of either star. A...