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Star treading carelessly
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red giant
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A red giant is a luminous giant star of low or intermediate mass (roughly 0.3–8 solar masses in a late phase of stellar evolution . The outer atmosphere is inflated and tenuous, making the radius large and the surface temperature as low as 5,000 K and lower. ...
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n. a large cool star; has a relatively low surface temperature and a diameter large relative to the sun [syn: red giant star ]
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context star English) A large red coloured star with a lower surface temperature than many stars.
Usage examples of red giant.
On their ancient star charts it was listed as a red giant, named Tonsil -239-e, which meant it was of the fifth magnitude and very distant.
In a few million years, Eta would be entering the stage of the final consumption of its hydrogen, thereby becoming a red giant.
Meanwhile the outer layers of the sun will expand into a massive red giant, 250 times its present diameter.
To make it old before its time, to balloon it to a red giant that would reach out to Earth’.
An tares, an Mi red giant, paired like Aldeberan, two hundred and fifty light years from earth, encircled by two hundred and fifty planetoids of the size of Mercury, of the climate of Eden….
Its color changed to blue as it inflated to enormous size, bigger even than the red giant had been.
If need be, he could field the rain of toads and the demon, but those would hardly be potent against his thralls, since they knew the illusionary nature of the amphibians and red giant.