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    Blue giants Bright giants Supergiants Red supergiant Hypergiants absolute magni- tude (MV) A hypergiant (luminosity class 0 or Ia+) is a very rare type of...
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    A yellow hypergiant (YHG) is a massive star with an extended atmosphere, a spectral class from A to K, and, starting with an initial mass of about 20–60...
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    Giants Red giants Blue giants Bright giants Supergiants Red supergiant Hypergiants absolute magni- tude (MV) Red supergiants (RSGs) are stars with a supergiant...
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    VY Canis Majoris (category M-type hypergiants)
    VY Canis Majoris (abbreviated to VY CMa) is an extreme oxygen-rich red hypergiant or red supergiant (O-rich RHG or RSG) and pulsating variable star 1.2...
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    Rho Cassiopeiae (category G-type hypergiants)
    Cassiopeiae (/ˌroʊ kæsiəˈpiːaɪ, -sioʊ-, -iː/; ρ Cas, ρ Cassiopeiae) is a yellow hypergiant star in the constellation Cassiopeia. It is about 8,150 light-years (2...
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    RSGC2-01 or St2-18, is a red supergiant (RSG) or possible extreme red hypergiant (RHG) star in the constellation of Scutum. It lies near the open cluster...
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    unusual yellow hypergiant evolving bluewards) Rho Cassiopeiae (unstable yellow hypergiant suffering periodic outbursts) Hypernova Hypergiant Hubble, Edwin;...
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    M.; Zheng, X. W. (January 2012). "Distance and Kinematics of the Red Hypergiant VY CMa: VLBA and VLA Astrometry". The Astrophysical Journal. 744 (1):...
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    Giants Red giants Blue giants Bright giants Supergiants Red supergiant Hypergiants absolute magni- tude (MV) Supergiants are among the most massive and...
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    Subgiant Giant Blue Red Yellow Bright giant Supergiant Blue Red Yellow Hypergiant Yellow Carbon S CN CH White dwarf Chemically peculiar Am Ap/Bp CEMP HgMn...
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    luminous stars known, including the yellow hypergiants Rho Cassiopeiae and V509 Cassiopeiae and white hypergiant 6 Cassiopeiae. In 1572, Tycho Brahe's supernova...
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    RW Cephei (category K-type hypergiants)
    RW Cephei is a K-type hypergiant and a semirregular variable star in the constellation Cepheus, at the edge of the Sharpless 132 H II region and close...
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    B324 (category F-type hypergiants)
    B324 is a yellow hypergiant in the Triangulum Galaxy, located near the giant H II region IC 142 around 2.7 million light years away. It is the brightest...
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    asteroids gravitating toward each other until they touch. HR 5171, a yellow hypergiant previously thought to be a contact binary. KIC 9832227, a contact binary...
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    Giants Red giants Blue giants Bright giants Supergiants Red supergiant Hypergiants absolute magni- tude (MV) The standard mechanism for star birth is through...
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    Subgiant Giant Blue Red Yellow Bright giant Supergiant Blue Red Yellow Hypergiant Yellow Carbon S CN CH White dwarf Chemically peculiar Am Ap/Bp CEMP HgMn...
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    magnitude of 3.3; it has a period of 35.5 days. V382 Carinae is a yellow hypergiant, one of the rarest types of stars. It is a slow irregular variable, with...
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    List of largest stars (category Hypergiants)
    Zheng, X. W.; Brunthaler, A. (2012). "The distance and size of the red hypergiant NML Cygni from VLBA and VLA astrometry" (PDF). Astronomy & Astrophysics...
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    important class of star known as a Cepheid variable. RW Cephei, an orange hypergiant, together with the red supergiants Mu Cephei, MY Cephei, VV Cephei, V381...
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  • the 15th variable star named in a constellation: RW Cephei, an orange hypergiant located in the constellation Cepheus RW Cygni, a red supergiant located...
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    that most will be from iron core collapse in luminous supergiants or hypergiants (including LBVs). The narrow spectral lines for which they are named...
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    Supergiant Blue supergiant Red supergiant Yellow supergiant Hypergiant Yellow hypergiant Blue straggler Stellar classification O-type main-sequence star...
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    be much higher 590 Gm (3.9 au) – Diameter of the Pistol Star, a blue hypergiant star 591 Gm (4.0 au) – Minimum distance between the Earth and Jupiter...
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    V509 Cassiopeiae (category G-type hypergiants)
    V509 Cassiopeiae (V509 Cas or HR 8752) is one of two yellow hypergiant stars found in the constellation Cassiopeia, which also contains Rho Cassiopeiae...
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    Subgiant Giant Blue Red Yellow Bright giant Supergiant Blue Red Yellow Hypergiant Yellow Carbon S CN CH White dwarf Chemically peculiar Am Ap/Bp CEMP HgMn...
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    distinguish giant stars from dwarfs. Luminosity class 0 or Ia+ is used for hypergiants, class I for supergiants, class II for bright giants, class III for regular...
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    V382 Carinae (category G-type hypergiants)
    V382 Carinae, also known as x Carinae (x Car), is a yellow hypergiant in the constellation Carina. It is a G-type star with a mean apparent magnitude of...
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    HR 5171 (category K-type hypergiants)
    HR 5171, also known as V766 Centauri, is a yellow hypergiant in the constellation Centaurus. It is said to be either an extreme red supergiant (RSG) or...
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