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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.
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.
Based on results from the Gaia telescope's second data release from April 2018, an estimated 694 stars will approach the Solar System to less than 5 parsecs in the next 15 million years. Of these, 26 have a good probability to come within 1.0 parsec (3.3 light-years) and another 7 within 0.5 parsecs (1.6 light-years). [3]
Stephenson 2, also known as RSGC2 (Red Supergiant Cluster 2), is a young massive open cluster belonging to the Milky Way galaxy. It was discovered in 1990 as a cluster of red supergiants in a photographic, deep infrared survey by the astronomer Charles Bruce Stephenson, after whom the cluster is named.
List of nearest supergiants: Nearest hypergiant: μ Cephei (Herschel's Garnet Star) 3,060 light-years (940 pc) [18] Nearest carbon star: CW Leonis: 310 light-years (95 pc) Nearest M-type star: Proxima Centauri: 1915 1.30 parsecs (4.2 ly) List of nearest M-type stars: Nearest K-type star: Alpha Centauri B 1.33 parsecs (4.3 ly) List of nearest K ...
This is a list of the nearest giant stars ... and the nearest red giant to Earth. Deneb Algedi ... 1.5 ± 0.3 [79] 1.64 [4] The ...
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The type-cD galaxy [1] (also cD-type galaxy, [2] cD galaxy [3]) is a galaxy morphology classification, a subtype of type-D giant elliptical galaxy. Characterized by a large halo of stars, [4] they can be found near the centres of some rich galaxy clusters. [5] They are also known as supergiant ellipticals [6] or central dominant galaxies. [7]