red giant | has definition Large, highly luminous but relatively cool star that has reached a late stage in its "life". It is running out of nuclear "fuel" and has accordingly expanded greatly and become less dense. Many also become variable stars of long periodicity. Its next evolutionary stage is to become a white dwarf, in developing into which the star has to cross the main sequence on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. | |
has definition A giant star with spectral type M. Such stars are in a more advanced state of evolution than the Sun, for they do not burn hydrogen into helium at their cores. Instead, they may fuse hydrogen into helium in a layer surrounding their cores, or they may fuse helium into carbon and oxygen, or they may do both. Often, astronomers use "red giant" loosely, to include not only M giants but G and K giants, too. | |
has definition A late-type (K or M) high-luminosity (brighter than Mv = 0) star that occupies the upper right portion of the H-R diagram. Red giants are post-main-sequence stars that have exhausted the nuclear fuel in their cores. The red-giant phase corresponds to the establishment of a deep convective envelope. Red giants in a globular cluster are about 3 times more luminous than RR Lyrae stars in the same cluster. | |
is a kind of giant | |
is a kind of M star | |
giant | has luminosity class III | |
late star | has spectral type cooler than G2 | |
star | has star surface temperature | |
has spectral type | |
has V magnitude | |
has B magnitude | |
has U magnitude | |
has position on celestial sphere from the point of view of Earth | |
has parallax from the point of view of Earth's orbit | |
has proper motion | |
has radiation at surface which is diffused out from the hotter core | |
has energy source gravitational contraction and or fusion | |
has energy production which takes place primarily within the core | |
has surface density which depends on luminosity class | |
has surface temperature greater than 1000 Kelvin | |
has apparent magnitude | |
has absolute magnitude | |
has age | |
has catalog star catalog | |
has material hydrogen, helium | |
has velocity determined from proper motion and radial velocity | |
has mass greater than 0.08 the sun's mass | |
celestial body | has spectra | |
physical object | has location or center of gravity | |
has angular momentum | |
has momentum | |
has temperature | |
has volume | |
has extent | |