Luminous blue variables (LBVs) are rare, massive and evolved stars that show unpredictable and sometimes dramatic variations in their spectra and brightness...

giants Blue giants Bright giants Supergiants Red supergiant Hypergiants absolute magni- tude (MV) A blue supergiant (BSG) is a hot, luminous star, often...

This is a list of luminous blue variable stars in order of their distance from Earth. The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is around 163 kly distant and the...

Earth, it is a hypergiant luminous blue variable (LBV) star of spectral type B1-2 Ia-0ep that is one of the most luminous stars in the Milky Way. The...

J.; Burggraf, Birgitta (2014-07-02). "LUMINOUS AND VARIABLE STARS IN M31 AND M33. II. LUMINOUS BLUE VARIABLES, CANDIDATE LBVs, Fe II EMISSION LINE STARS...

initially classified as a type IIn, or possibly the outburst of a luminous blue variable. In 2021, it was reclassified as a Gap transient. SN 2004dj was...

them. Although no supernovae have been observed in NGC 3109 yet, a luminous blue variable, designated AT 2018akx (type LBV, mag. 17.5), was discovered on...

these are small except for two distinct instability regions where luminous blue variables (LBVs) and yellow hypergiants are found. Because of their high...

lives in the blue giant stage. Because O-type and B-type stars with a giant luminosity classification are often somewhat more luminous than their normal...

symbols are used for white dwarfs than for other types of stars: Luminous blue variables (LBVs) are rare, massive and evolved stars that show unpredictable...

roughly 160,000 light-years away. The star is a luminous blue variable, and one of the most luminous stars known, having a luminosity varying widely above...

class of variables is named after Beta Cephei. Classical Cepheids (or Delta Cephei variables) are population I (young, massive, and luminous) yellow supergiants...

The Pistol Star is an extremely luminous blue hypergiant star, one of the most luminous and massive known stars in the Milky Way. It is one of many massive...

low-luminosity post-red supergiant luminous blue variables to collapse, most likely as a type IIn supernova. Several examples of hot luminous progenitors of type IIn...

Blue giants Bright giants Supergiants Red supergiant Hypergiants absolute magni- tude (MV) Supergiants are among the most massive and most luminous stars...

used for blue supergiants which have a forest of forbidden FeII lines in their spectra. They are potentially quiescent hot luminous blue variables. Eta Carinae...

constellation Carina. It is classified as a luminous blue variable (LBV) and is one of the most luminous stars in the Milky Way. The great distance (20...

components among the most luminous stars known: the unusual primary has a Wolf–Rayet spectrum and has produced a luminous blue variable (LBV) outburst; the...

T Tauri stars (TTS) are a class of variable stars that are less than about ten million years old. This class is named after the prototype, T Tauri, a young...

that Sk -69 202 may have been a luminous blue variable in the recent past, although it was apparently a normal luminous supergiant at the time it exploded...

well-established in all cases, it may be termed a "hot companion". The luminous blue variable Eta Carinae has been determined to be a binary star system. The...

F.; Kniazev, A.; Sholukhova, O.; Maslennikova, O. (2020). "New luminous blue variable candidates in the NGC 247 galaxy". Monthly Notices of the Royal...

2007). "Discovery of a Nearby Twin of SN 1987A's Nebula around the Luminous Blue Variable HD 168625: Was Sk -69 202 an LBV?". The Astronomical Journal. 133...

Przybilla, Norbert; Nieva, M. -Fernanda (2011). "Red Supergiants, Luminous Blue Variables and Wolf-Rayet stars: The single massive star perspective". Bulletin...

LBV 1806−20 is a candidate luminous blue variable (LBV) and likely binary star located around 28,000 light-years (8,700 pc) from the Sun, towards the center...

showing N and He emission BSG: blue supergiant RSG: red supergiant YHG: yellow hypergiant LBV: luminous blue variable WNh: WN plus hydrogen lines WNL:...

hottest stars List of Wolf-Rayet stars List of luminous blue variable stars List of O-type stars List of blue straggler stars List of brown dwarfs List of...

4559: SN 1941A (Type II-L, mag. 13.2). NGC 4559 is home to the luminous blue variable AT 2016blu, which experiences repeated supernova-like outbursts...

Type V supernovae, Eta Carinae analogs, and giant eruptions of luminous blue variables (LBV). Supernova impostors appear as remarkably faint supernovae...

54 years. The primary is an extremely unusual star, similar to a luminous blue variable (LBV). It was initially 150–250 M☉, of which it has already lost...