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    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...
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    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...
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    In astronomy, a semiregular variable star, a type of variable star, is a giant or supergiant of intermediate and late (cooler) spectral type. It shows...
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    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...
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    examples of stars in this mass range include Antares, Spica, Gamma Velorum, Mu Cephei, and members of the Quintuplet Cluster. Type Ia supernova progenitors...
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    484 days. Its variability was discovered by Karl Hencke in 1858. Mu Cephei ST Cephei Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (2021). "Gaia Early...
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  • 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...
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    671J. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20066353. ISSN 0004-6361. S2CID 17789027. "Mu Cephei | aavso". www.aavso.org. Retrieved 6 October 2024. Ramstedt, S.; Olofsson...
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    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...
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    Population III stars. Such stars would dwarf VY Canis Majoris, Mu Cephei and VV Cephei A, three among the largest known modern stars. Once the black hole...
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    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...
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    cooler stars and even detected in giant hot stars such as Betelgeuse, Mu Cephei, Antares and Arcturus. Circumstellar disks: including those of more than...
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    – 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...
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    even larger red supergiants, such as VY Canis Majoris, VV Cephei A, WOH G64, or Mu Cephei. Antares, like the similarly sized red supergiant Betelgeuse...
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    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...
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    meters Mu Cephei 1.9 × 1012 meters 1.9 × 1012 meters KY Cygni 2 × 1012 meters 2 × 1012 meters V354 Cephei 2.1 × 1012 meters 2.1 × 1012 meters VV Cephei A 2...
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  • 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"...
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    of spectra in 1942 revealed RW Cephei to be a highly luminous hypergiant star, appearing more luminous than Mu Cephei. More detailed spectral studies...
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  • J004731.12+422749.1 275,000 – VY Canis Majoris 270,000 3,490 M3–M4.5 Mu Cephei 269,000+111,000 −40,000 3,750 M2 Ia LGGS J004428.48+415130.9 269,000 M1I...
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    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...
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    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...
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    (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...
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    Sirius 4. Sirius < Pollux < Arcturus < Aldebaran 5. Aldebaran < Rigel < Antares < Betelgeuse 6. Betelgeuse < Mu Cephei < VV Cephei A < VY Canis Majoris....
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    Size comparison of Betelgeuse, Mu Cephei, KY Cygni, and V354 Cephei, according to estimates derived in 2005...
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    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...
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  • Size comparison of Betelgeuse, Mu Cephei, KY Cygni, and V354 Cephei according to Emily Levesque's publication...
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  • most luminous galactic red supergiants, which includes V354 Cephei, KY Cygni and Mu Cephei. More recently, KW Sagittarii was calculated to have a lower...
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    Mu Eridani (μ Eridani) is a binary star system in the constellation Eridanus. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.00...
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  • 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...
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  • Omega Centauri. Named after Charles Fehrenbach. Herschel's Garnet Star is Mu Cephei, a red supergiant particularly remarkable for its deep red color, first...
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