red supergiant
Massive dying star
A red supergiant is an enormous aging star that has exhausted its core hydrogen and expanded to hundreds of times the sun's diameter while cooling to a reddish hue.
Betelgeuse in Orion is the most famous example.
Red supergiants represent a late stage of stellar evolution, typically ending in supernova explosions.
- BetelgeuseRed supergiant star
- AntaresRed supergiant in Scorpius
- starLuminous astronomical object
- Wolf-Rayet starsHot massive suns shedding outer layers
- supernovaExploding massive star
burning out · astronomy · night sky · mass loss · late stage · stellar wind · vast · cosmic scale · magnitude · massive stars · luminosity · crimson · infrared · constellation · helium · pulsating · fusion · core
- starsstars, Sirius, Polaris, sol, sun
- massive starshypergiant, short lifespan
- Supernovaesupernova, core collapse, stellar explosion, supernova remnant, Crab Nebula
stellar size/luminosity class
red supergiantred dwarf
Low-mass, cool star
white dwarf · brown dwarf · neutron star · black hole · black dwarf
giant, super, gigantic, reddish, redden, reds, giants, redder, reddened