White dwarfs Red dwarfs Subdwarfs Main sequence ("dwarfs") Subgiants Giants Red giants Blue giants Bright giants Supergiants Red supergiant Hypergiants...
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White dwarfs Red dwarfs Subdwarfs Main sequence ("dwarfs") Subgiants Giants Red giants Blue giants Bright giants Supergiants Red supergiant Hypergiants...
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White dwarfs Red dwarfs Subdwarfs Main sequence ("dwarfs") Subgiants Giants Red giants Blue giants Bright giants Supergiants Red supergiant Hypergiants...
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Supernova (redirect from Red supergiant problem)
recent naked-eye supernova was SN 1987A, which was the explosion of a blue supergiant star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way...
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White dwarfs Red dwarfs Subdwarfs Main sequence ("dwarfs") Subgiants Giants Red giants Blue giants Bright giants Supergiants Red supergiant Hypergiants...
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Stephenson 2 DFK 1 (category M-type supergiants)
Stephenson 2 DFK 1, also known as RSGC2-01 or St2-18, is a red supergiant (RSG) or possible extreme red hypergiant (RHG) star in the constellation of Scutum...
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Betelgeuse (category M-type supergiants)
Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star in the constellation of Orion. It is usually the tenth-brightest star in the night sky and, after Rigel, the second-brightest...
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Hypergiant (redirect from Red hypergiant)
White dwarfs Red dwarfs Subdwarfs Main sequence ("dwarfs") Subgiants Giants Red giants Blue giants Bright giants Supergiants Red supergiant Hypergiants...
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White dwarfs Red dwarfs Subdwarfs Main sequence ("dwarfs") Subgiants Giants Red giants Blue giants Bright giants Supergiants Red supergiant Hypergiants...
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VY Canis Majoris (category M-type supergiants)
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 kiloparsecs...
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List of largest stars (category Supergiants)
radius of the Sun (approximately 695,700 km; 432,300 mi). Although red supergiants are often considered the largest stars, some other star types have...
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UY Scuti (category M-type supergiants)
UY Scuti (BD-12°5055) is a red supergiant star, located 5,900 light-years away in the constellation Scutum. It is also a pulsating variable star, with...
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WOH G64 (category M-type supergiants)
WOH G64 (IRAS 04553-6825) is an unusual red supergiant (RSG) star in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) satellite galaxy in the southern constellation of...
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Betelgeuse or Bételgeuse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star in the Orion constellation. Betelgeuse may also refer to: Betelgeuse...
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Antares (category M-type supergiants)
its foreground. Classified as spectral type M1.5Iab-Ib, Antares is a red supergiant, a large evolved massive star and one of the largest stars visible to...
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emission in red supergiant stars of the massive young star cluster RSGC1 -- Determination of a new mass-loss rate prescription for red supergiants". Astronomy...
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RSGC1 (Red Supergiant Cluster 1) is a young massive open cluster in the Milky Way galaxy. It was discovered in 2006 in the data generated by several infrared...
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Blue loop (section Red supergiants)
to a place called the blue giant branch. Blue loops can occur for red supergiants, red-giant branch stars, or asymptotic giant branch stars. Some stars...
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Cepheid variable. RW Cephei, an orange hypergiant, together with the red supergiants Mu Cephei, MY Cephei, VV Cephei, V381 Cephei, and V354 Cephei are among...
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with a temperature similar to the sun Red supergiant, a cool supergiant star Supergiant may also refer to: Supergiant Games, a video game development company...
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Mu Cephei (category M-type supergiants)
Star, Erakis, or HD 206936, is a red supergiant or hypergiant star in the constellation Cepheus. It appears garnet red and is located at the edge of the...
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Deneb (category A-type supergiants)
Deneb (/ˈdɛnɛb/) is a first-magnitude blue supergiant star in the constellation of Cygnus. Deneb is one of the vertices of the asterism known as the Summer...
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red supergiant and is also one of the largest stars currently known with a radius over 900 times that of the Sun. RSGC1-F01 is another red supergiant...
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V762 Cassiopeiae (category K-type supergiants)
V762 Cassiopeiae is a red supergiant and a variable star located about 2,500 light-years away in the Cassiopeia constellation. Its apparent magnitude vary...
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Stellar evolution (section Supergiant evolution)
their outer layers so rapidly, they can likewise avoid becoming red giants or red supergiants if they are in binary systems close enough so that the companion...
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Giant star (section Red giants)
White dwarfs Red dwarfs Subdwarfs Main sequence ("dwarfs") Subgiants Giants Red giants Blue giants Bright giants Supergiants Red supergiant Hypergiants...
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L-type supergiants are an extremely rare type of supergiant star that have spectral types of "L" due to their low temperatures. Such stars should be very...
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B-type stars, and sometimes as warm hypergiants in comparison with red supergiants. The term "hypergiant" was used as early as 1929, but not for the stars...
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constellation is Westerlund 1, a super star cluster that contains the red supergiant Westerlund 1-26, one of the largest stars known. In ancient Greek mythology...
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6 Cassiopeiae which is a hotter white hypergiant. It also hosts the red supergiant PZ Cassiopeiae, which is one of the largest known stars with an estimate...
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