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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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    White dwarfs Red dwarfs Subdwarfs Main sequence ("dwarfs") Subgiants Giants Red giants Blue giants Bright giants Supergiants Red supergiant Hypergiants...
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    WOH G64 (category M-type supergiants)
    WOH G64 (IRAS 04553-6825) is an unusual red supergiant star in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) satellite galaxy in the southern constellation of Dorado...
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    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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    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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    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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    White dwarfs Red dwarfs Subdwarfs Main sequence ("dwarfs") Subgiants Giants Red giants Blue giants Bright giants Supergiants Red supergiant Hypergiants...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    B90 (star) (category M-type supergiants)
    B90 (often referred to as [W60] B90) is a large, highly luminous red supergiant star similar to Betelgeuse in the Large Magellanic Cloud. B90 was discovered...
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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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    A luminous red nova (abbr. LRN, pl. luminous red novae, pl.abbr. LRNe) is a stellar explosion thought to be caused by the merging of two stars. They are...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Thorne–Żytkow object (category Red giants)
    known as a hybrid star, is a conjectured type of star wherein a red giant or red supergiant contains a neutron star at its core, formed from the collision...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    a blue supergiant and then a red supergiant. Particularly massive stars (exceeding 40 solar masses, like Alnilam, the central blue supergiant of Orion's...
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    Westerlund 1 W26 (category M-type supergiants)
    red supergiant located at the outskirts of the Westerlund 1 super star cluster. It is one of the largest known stars and the most luminous supergiant...
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