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The ejection of the outer mass and the creation of a planetary nebula finally ends the red-giant phase of the star's evolution. [10] The red-giant phase typically lasts only around a billion years in total for a solar mass star, almost all of which is spent on the red-giant branch.
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.
HD 18438 is a red giant star in the deep northern constellation of Cepheus, located about 730 light-years (220 parsecs) from Earth.With an apparent magnitude of 5.49, it is visible by the naked eye under dark skies as a red-hued dot of light about 10 degrees away from the celestial north pole.
New examinations of this behemoth star suggest it is both smaller — and closer — than astronomers believed. This red giant star will, one day, explode as a supernova. However, it is ...
Mira was historically thought to be a red supergiant star, but is now widely accepted to be an asymptotic giant branch star. [32] Some red supergiants are larger and more luminous, with radii exceeding over a thousand times that of the Sun. These are hence also referred to as red hypergiants: Mu Cephei; VV Cephei A; NML Cygni; S Persei; UY Scuti
Astronomers spotted a new type of aging giant red star that remains quiet for decades before belching out clouds of smoke at the center of the Milky Way.
The red giant π1 Gruis is 530 light-years away, and it's reaching the end of its natural life. Soon, scientists think it will become a planetary nebula. But before it dies, astronomers are using ...
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 ...