blue supergiant
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Size comparison of a blue supergiant with the Sun,
and the Sun with Jupiter. Image: © Mark A. Garlic, space-art.co.uk
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A hot, massive, luminous star that is in an advanced post-main
sequence stage of evolution. The best known example is Rigel.
See supergiant for more details.
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