Sentences with phrase «supergiant star called»

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But the progenitor of SN 1987A turned out to be a smaller, hotter kind of star called a blue supergiant.

But the big surprise among the supergiants was R 136a1, a star that might be called a hypergiant.

Cygnus X-1 was found as part of a binary star system in which an extremely hot and bright star called a blue supergiant formed an accretion disk around an invisible object.

The red star at the center of the eyeball - like feature is an unusual erupting supergiant called V838 Monocerotis, located about 20,000 light - years away in the winter constellation Monoceros (the Unicorn).

Named in many ancient cultures, the star is commonly called «Denebola» in modern star catalogues, originally from «Al Dhanab al Asad,» the Lion's Tail of the constellation, but sometimes shares the name of the well - known supergiant «Deneb» (Richard Hinckley Allen, 1889: page 258).