supergiant star


supergiant star:

see red giantred giant,
star that is relatively cool but very luminous because of its great size. All normal stars are expected to pass eventually through a red-giant phase as a consequence of stellar evolution.
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supergiant star

[¦sü·pər′gī·ənt ′stär] (astronomy) A member of the family containing the intrinsically brightest stars, populating the top of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram; supergiant stars occur at all temperatures from 30,000 to 3000 K and have luminosities from 104 to 106 times that of the sun; the star Betelgeuse is an example.