BLUE GIANT Definition & Meaning

blue giant

Astronomy.

any of the large, bright stars having surface temperatures of about 20,000 K and diameters that are often ten times that of the sun.

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It’s located about 1,000 light years from Earth and it’s visible thanks to the ionization of gases by the blue giant star Persei.

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Those stars shed hydrogen into the space around them as they became a blue giant tens of thousands of years before the supernova.

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That ring-shaped cloud of gas was then buffeted by the stream of high-speed charged particles coming off the blue giant, known as a stellar wind.

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This blue giant star lies 97 light-years from Earth and shines 200 times brighter than our sun.

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Richard Horner is an owner of Blue Giant, a New Orleans restaurant.

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