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unusual facts about supergiant



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Cantarell

Cantarell Field (or Cantarell Complex), an aging supergiant oil field in Mexico

Effective temperature

A red star could be a tiny red dwarf, a star of feeble energy production and a small surface or a bloated giant or even supergiant star such as Antares or Betelgeuse, either of which generates far greater energy but passes it through a surface so large that the star radiates little per unit of surface area.

Westerlund 1

The cluster contains a large number of rare, evolved, high-mass stars, including: 6 yellow hypergiants, 4 red supergiants, 24 Wolf-Rayet stars, a luminous blue variable, many OB supergiants, and an unusual supergiant sgBe star which has been proposed to be the remnant of a recent stellar merger.


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