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red giants

n. (red giant English)

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Inhospitable places like red giants and the burnt-out cinders of white dwarfs, whose planets have no future.

Alpha A and B-swell into red giants, then dwindle into white dwarfs.

The red giants, of the types of Aldebran and Arcturus, and their supergiant counterparts, like Betelgeuse and Antares .

The relative abundance of the chemical elements found in the Cosmos matches the relative abundance of atoms generated in stars so well as to leave little doubt that red giants and supernovae are the ovens and crucibles in which matter has been forged.

Some of the larger ones--here and there--reddened and grew brighter as they expanded into red giants.

The chemistry of red giants is a little weighty for our purposes here (it requires an appreciation for the properties of singly ionized helium atoms, among quite a lot else), but put simply it means that they burn their remaining fuel in a way that produces a very rhythmic, very reliable brightening and dimming.