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Fluid dynamics simulations of a red giant, with giant convection cells and puffy surface. A red giant is a luminous giant star of low or intermediate mass (roughly 0.3–8 solar masses (M ☉)) in a late phase of stellar evolution.
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 [91] AD The nearest giant star to the Earth. Spica (α Virginis A) 7.47 ± 0.54 [97] One of the nearest supernova candidates and the sixteenth-brightest star in the night sky. Regulus (α Leonis A) 4.16 × 3.14 [98]
A red giant is a luminous giant star of low or intermediate mass that is in a late phase of its evolution. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
This is a list of the nearest giant stars (luminosity class III or II) ... The nearest M-type red giant, and the 25th brightest star in the night sky. 36 G. Doradus:
Higher-mass stars never cool sufficiently to become red supergiants. Lower-mass stars develop a degenerate helium core during a red giant phase, undergo a helium flash before fusing helium on the horizontal branch, evolve along the AGB while burning helium in a shell around a degenerate carbon-oxygen core, then rapidly lose their outer layers ...
Within any giant luminosity class, the cooler stars of spectral class K, M, S, and C, (and sometimes some G-type stars [13]) are called red giants. Red giants include stars in a number of distinct evolutionary phases of their lives: a main red-giant branch (RGB); a red horizontal branch or red clump; the asymptotic giant branch (AGB), although ...
The list specifically excludes both white dwarfs – former stars that are now seen to be "dead" but radiating residual heat – and black holes – fragmentary remains of exploded stars which have gravitationally collapsed, even though accretion disks surrounding those black holes might generate heat or light exterior to the star's remains ...
This is a list of the nearest supergiant stars to Earth, located at a distance of up to 1,100 light-years (340 parsecs) from Earth. Some of the brightest stars in the night sky, such as Rigel and Antares, are in the list.