Giant star
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giant-star-224-928030
title:
Giant star
text:
A giant star has a substantially larger radius and luminosity than a main-sequence star of the same surface temperature. They lie above the main sequence on the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram and correspond to luminosity classes II and III. The terms giant and dwarf were coined for stars of quite different luminosity despite similar temperature or spectral type by Ejnar Hertzsprung in 1905 or 1906. Giant stars have radii up to a few hundred times the Sun and luminosities between 10 and a few thousa
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description:
Type of star, larger and brighter than the Sun
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_star
date created:
2004-04-01T04:57:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T15:12:27Z
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