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supergiant::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | star |
Examples of supergiant
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University of Aberdeen undated handout photo of one of the supergiant amphipods.
From the huffingtonpost.com
But the country with the most remarkable record is that other supergiant, India.
From the economist.com
Fierce competition was expected for the last of the supergiant fields on offer.
From the washingtonpost.com
The system consists of a blue supergiant star and a massive but invisible companion.
From the sciencedaily.com
This blue supergiant is 1300 light years away and 400,000 times as bright as the sun.
From the newscientist.com
Mankind has reached its complexity threshold and has to implode like a red supergiant.
From the newscientist.com
On one side hot hydrogen gas is illuminated by a supergiant blue star called V391 Velorum.
From the sciencedaily.com
Because Alpha Cam is a supergiant star, it gives off a very strong wind.
From the sciencedaily.com
Say hello to Betelgeuse, a red supergiant just 640 light-years distant.
From the scienceblogs.com
- An extremely bright star of very large diameter and low density
- Supergiants are among the most massive stars. They occupy the top region of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. In the Yerkes spectral classification, supergiants are class Ia (most luminous supergiants) or Ib (less luminous supergiants). ...
- The most massive stars, 10 to 70 times more massive than our Sun.
- A star near the end of its life that puffs out into a huge body many times larger than a normal star.
- Is the most massive type of star. A supergiant may have a mass between 10 and 70 times that of the Sun, or even more. Its size (diameter) will typically be several times larger than that of our own Sun.
- A dying star of extremely high luminosity and relatively cool surface temperature. Their diameters are over 100 times that of the Sun.
- The stage in a star's evolution where the core contracts and the star swells to about five hundreds times its original size. The star's temperature drops, giving it a red color.
- Large, bright star having a luminosity that is thousands of times greater than that of the sun.
