RW Cephei
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rw-cephei-167-599712
title:
RW Cephei
text:
RW Cephei is a K-type hypergiant and a semirregular variable star in the constellation Cepheus, at the edge of the Sharpless 132 H II region and close to the small open cluster Berkeley 94. It is among the largest stars known with a radius of 1,100 times that of the Sun (R☉), nearly as large as the orbit of Jupiter. In 2022, the star underwent a "great dimming" event similar to Betelgeuse. The temperature intermediate between the red supergiants and yellow hypergiants has led to it being various
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Hypergiant star in the constellation Cepheus
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RW_Cephei
date created:
2008-10-24T15:46:09Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T16:23:13Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/RW_Cep_CHARA_array.png","width":602,"height":602}
fields total:
13
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16