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...

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...

yellow hypergiant that is one of the brightest to the naked eye; and Mu Cephei (Herschel's "Garnet Star"), one of the largest and brightest stars known...

In astronomy, a semiregular variable star, a type of variable star, is a giant or supergiant of intermediate and late (cooler) spectral type showing considerable...

described the four red supergiant stars, KW Sagittarii, V354 Cephei, KY Cygni and Mu Cephei as the largest and most luminous galactic red supergiants with...

examples of stars in this mass range include Antares, Spica, Gamma Velorum, Mu Cephei, and members of the Quintuplet Cluster. Type Ia supernova progenitors...

massive Population III stars. Such stars would dwarf VY Canis Majoris, Mu Cephei and RSGC1-F01, four among the largest known modern stars. Once the black...

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...

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

due 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...

cooler stars and even detected in giant hot stars such as Betelgeuse, Mu Cephei, Antares and Arcturus. Circumstellar disks: including those of more than...

– Beta Andromedae M2III – Chi Pegasi M1-M2Ia-Iab – Betelgeuse M2Ia – Mu Cephei ("Herschel's garnet") A number of new spectral types have been taken into...

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"...

J004731.12+422749.1 275,000 – VY Canis Majoris 270,000 3,490 M3–M4.5 Mu Cephei 269,000+111,000 −40,000 3750 M2 Ia LGGS J004428.48+415130.9 269,000 M1I...

(Alpha Indi) and The Head of Hydrus (Alpha Hydri), Herschel's Garnet Star (Mu Cephei), Barnard's Star, etc. During the 12th century the Byzantines provided...

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...

of spectra in 1942 revealed RW Cephei to be a highly luminous hypergiant star, appearing more luminous than Mu Cephei. More detailed spectral studies...

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...

Uranus () features the capital initial letter of Herschel's surname. Mu Cephei is also known as Herschel's Garnet Star Herschel, a crater on the Moon...

composed of carbon and oxygen. It is a semiregular variable star of the Mu Cephei type, whose apparent magnitude varies between 3.3 and 4.0 with periods...

design spiral galaxy observed), globular cluster NGC 2808, red giant star Mu Cephei, and the Andromeda Galaxy. Barnard's Star (nearby red dwarf star) may...

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

Size comparison of Betelgeuse, Mu Cephei, KY Cygni, and V354 Cephei, according to estimates derived in 2005...

Size comparison of Betelgeuse, Mu Cephei, KY Cygni, and V354 Cephei according to Emily Levesque's publication...

Omega Centauri. Named after Charles Fehrenbach. Herschel's Garnet Star is Mu Cephei, a red supergiant particularly remarkable for its deep red color, first...

few bow shock-producing red supergiant stars, along with Betelgeuse and Mu Cephei. Unlike the other two, the bow shock is visible in visible light. Its...

Cepheus. The star Zeta Cephei is specifically named after him. A famous presentation of the story is available in the Tale of King Mu, Son of Heaven. Another...

most luminous galactic red supergiants, which includes V354 Cephei, KY Cygni and Mu Cephei. More recently, KW Sagittarii was calculated to have a lower...

exploded as supernovae. Mu Cephei, Nu Cephei, and NGC 7160 may have been companions of those stars. It has been suggested that Lambda Cephei and 68 Cygni are...

Majoris, B-type supergiant, spectral type B3Ia Lambda Cephei, B-type supergiant, specteal type O6.5I(n)fp Mu Sagittarii, B-type supergiant, spectral type B8Iab(e)...