Supergiants

Word SUPERGIANTS
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Definitions and meanings of "Supergiants"

What do we mean by supergiants?

A very large star having a mass between 10 and 70 solar masses.

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The word "supergiants" in example sentences

Mr Shahristani declared that Iraq had "scores" of oilfields, including "supergiants" - fields of 5bn barrels or more - to offer international companies in the future. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The ship climbed above the A-B plane of the two supergiants, and began its slow parabolic plunge toward the coordinates where the 100 meter wide vortex would appear at the instant of closest approach. ❋ Unknown (2008)

During the close approach, the overpowering gravity wells of these two massive supergiants forms a localized space-time distortion between them. ❋ Unknown (2008)

However, it is not at all the case for other stars and in particular supergiants. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This result provides a better understanding of the structure and evolution of supergiants. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Extremely massive stars (approximately 40 solar masses), which are very luminous and thus have very rapid stellar winds, lose mass so rapidly due to radiation pressure that they tend to strip off their own envelopes before they can expand to become red supergiants, and thus retain extremely high surface temperatures (and blue-white color) from their main sequence time onwards." ❋ Unknown (2010)

The cosmic nursery is teeming with thousands of young, massive suns, including several blue supergiants and three massive Wolf-Rayet stars. ❋ Unknown (2010)

No known red giants / red supergiants exist above above 20 solar masses Betelgeuse is about 15 to 18 Solar Masses, and is considered a progenitor of the the red supergiants., because they blow up as supernovae before they reach that stage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Perry Rhodan knows the potential danger of these warships which include 20 supergiants of the Imperium class-especially in the clever and capable hands of the Akons. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's amazing how supergiants seem to have evolved in so many lineages. ❋ Darren Naish (2007)

The sharp "eye" of WFC3 has captured hundreds of young star clusters, ancient swarms of globular star clusters, and hundreds of thousands of individual stars, mostly blue supergiants and red supergiants. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Exploding stars like SN1987A may have been luminous blue variables, not blue supergiants. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The brightest sources in the ring are red supergiants, or low-mass star clusters. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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