Translation for '
red giant' from English to French
| NOUN | a red giant | red giants | |
| SYNO | red giant | red giant star |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- 33, Gamma Hydri is a variable red giant 60 times the diameter of the Sun.
- Beta Gruis is a red giant variable star with a minimum magnitude of 2.3 and a maximum magnitude of 2.0.
- The Sun will turn into a red giant in approximately 6 billion years.
- Aldebaran (Arabic: “The Follower”, "الدبران"), a red giant star, is the brightest star in the zodiac constellation of Taurus.
- 7 light-years from the Sun, Arcturus is a single red giant of spectral type K1.5III—an aging star around 7.1 billion years old that has used up its core hydrogen and evolved off the main sequence.
- AK Pyxidis is a red giant of spectral type M5III and semi-regular variable that varies between magnitudes 6.09 and 6.51.
- One possible explanation for the lack of white dwarfs is that when a red giant expels its outer layers to become a planetary nebula, a slight asymmetry in the loss of material could give the star a 'kick' of a few kilometres per second, enough to eject it from the cluster.
- Mira (...), designation Omicron Ceti (ο Ceti, abbreviated Omicron Cet, ο Cet), is a red-giant star estimated to be 200–400 light-years from the Sun in the constellation Cetus.
- After the hydrogen fuel at the core has been consumed, the star evolves away from the main sequence on the HR diagram, into a supergiant, red giant, or directly to a white dwarf.
- Apart from the Sun, the star with the largest angular diameter from Earth is R Doradus, a red giant with a diameter of 0.05″.
- A red giant of spectral type M4III, BC Canis Minoris lies around [...] distant from the Solar System.
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