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Red giant
A red giant is a large
non-main sequence star of
stellar classification K or
M; so-named because of the
reddish appearance of the
cooler giant stars. As
Earth's sun is of one solar
mass, it is expected to
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Supergiant
Supergiants are the most
massive stars. Supergiants
can have masses from 10 to
70 solar masses and
brightness from 30,000 up to
hundreds of thousands times
the solar luminosity. They
vary greatly in radii,
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Star cluster
Star clusters are groups of
stars which are
gravitationally bound. Two
distinct types of star
cluster can be
distinguished: globular
clusters are tight groups of
hundreds of thousands of
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Red supergiant
Red supergiants are
supergiant stars of spectral
type K-M and a luminosity
class of I. They are the
largest stars in the
universe in terms of
physical size, although they
are not the most massive.
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Blue supergiant
Blue supergiants are supergiant stars (class I) of spectral type O. They are extremely hot and bright, with surface temperatures of between 20,000 - 50,000 degrees Celsius. The best known example is ... > more -
Stellar classification
In astronomy, stellar classification is a classification of stars based initially on photospheric temperature and its associated spectral ... > more -
Brown dwarf
Brown dwarfs were originally called black dwarfs, a classification for dark substellar objects floating freely in space which were too low in mass to sustain stable hydrogen ... > more -
Stellar evolution
In astronomy, stellar evolution is the sequence of changes that a star undergoes during its lifetime; the hundreds of thousands, millions or billions of years during which it emits light and heat. ... > more -
Luminosity
In general physics, luminosity (more properly called luminance) is the density of luminous intensity in a given ... > more -
Cepheid variable
A Cepheid variable or Cepheid is a member of a particular class of variable stars, notable for a fairly tight correlation between their period of variability and absolute luminosity. Since the ... > more -
Alpha Centauri
Alpha Centauri (α Cen / α Centauri) is the brightest star system (a triple star system) in the southern constellation of Centaurus, and contains the fourth brightest star in the night ... > more -
Local Group
The Local Group (also called M31 group or the Andromeda group) is the group of galaxies that includes our galaxy, the Milky Way. The group comprises over 30 galaxies, with its gravitational center ... > more -
Open cluster
An open cluster is a group of up to a few thousand stars that were formed from the same giant molecular cloud, and are still loosely gravitationally bound to each other. In contrast, globular ... > more
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