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The red-giant branch variable star Gamma Crucis is the nearest M-class giant star at 88 light-years. [25] The K1.5 red-giant branch star Arcturus is 36 light-years away. [ 26 ]
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 a maximum brightness of magnitude 8.29 and a minimum of magnitude 10.56, which is too dim for naked-eye visibility.
This is the nearest red giant to the Earth, and the fourth brightest star in the night sky. Pollux (β Geminorum) 9.06 ± 0.03 [95] AD The nearest giant star to the Earth. Spica (α Virginis A) 7.47 ± 0.54 [101] One of the nearest supernova candidates and the sixteenth-brightest star in the night sky. Regulus (α Leonis A) 4.16 × 3.14 [102]
The images show the surface of the star R. Doradus, a red giant star 180 light-years away in the Dorado constellation. The star has a diameter about 350 times that of the sun, and it serves as a ...
La Superba is a semiregular variable star, varying by about a magnitude over a roughly 160-day cycle, but with slower variation over a larger range. Periods of 194 and 186 days have been suggested, with a resonance between the periods. [12] Y CVn is one of the reddest stars known, and it is among the brightest of the giant red carbon stars.
This red giant star will, one day, explode as a supernova. Betelgeuse is one of the best-known stars in the night sky, as well as the easiest to find. New examinations of this behemoth star ...
For example, Alpha Herculis is classified as a giant star with a radius of between 264 to 303 R ☉ while Epsilon Pegasi is a K2 supergiant of only 185 R ☉. Although red supergiants are much cooler than the Sun, they are so much larger that they are highly luminous, typically tens or hundreds of thousands L ☉ . [ 9 ]
Red giants form when stars have exhausted their supply of hydrogen for nuclear fusion and begin to die. In about 5 or 6 billion years, our sun will become a red giant, puffing up and expanding as ...