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{{short description|Red giant star in the constellation Eridanus}} | type = asymptotic giant branch<ref name=eggen1992/> ...

...ref name=manick/> and it is hot enough to be classified as a B-type [[blue giant]], as well as being the hottest [[RV Tauri variable]] in the LMC. LHA 120-S ...g|first5=Katrien|date=2018-10-01|title=The evolutionary nature of RV Tauri stars in the SMC and LMC|bibcode=2018A&A...618A..21M|journal=Astronomy and Astrop ...

{{about|p² Leonis|other stars with this Bayer designation|p Leonis}} | type = [[asymptotic giant branch|AGB]]<ref name=eggen1992/> ...

|type=[[Asymptotic giant branch]]}} ...amus2017/> is visible to the [[naked eye]] and one of the brightest carbon stars.<ref name=Streicher2009/> Based on [[stellar parallax|parallax]] measuremen ...

| type = [[Asymptotic giant branch|AGB]]<ref name = Montez2017/> ...bon star with emission lines. It is a giant star on the [[asymptotic giant branch]],<ref name = Montez2017/> meaning that it is generating energy via [[hydro ...

| type = [[asymptotic giant branch|AGB]]<ref name=Rau2017/> ...e Jump Cannon|Annie Jump Cannon's]] 1907 work ''Second Catalog of Variable Stars''.<ref name="Cannon1907"/> ...

| type = [[asymptotic giant branch|AGB]]<ref name=paladini2012/> ...m deep inside the star. It is also a Mira variable, a type of pulsating [[giant star]] which varies by several [[apparent magnitude]]s with a period of a f ...

...making V Coronae Borealis [[List of largest known stars|one of the largest stars]] so far discovered.<ref name=Danilovich2015/> If placed in the center of t ...title=New observations and models of circumstellar CO line emission of AGB stars in the Herschel SUCCESS programme |bibcode=2015A&A...581A..60D |journal=Ast ...

...ved to be a highly evolved star, in transition from the [[Asymptotic giant branch|AGB]] phase to the [[protoplanetary nebula]] phase.<ref name="Kim"/> It is * [[List of largest known stars]] ...

...timated distance of 3–4&nbsp;Mpc from the Milky Way. It may be the closest giant elliptical galaxy. ...970 [[Hyron Spinrad]] suggested that Maffei 1 is a nearby heavily obscured giant elliptical galaxy.<ref name=Bell1970/> Maffei 1 would be among the ten brig ...

...rometric distances, extinctions, and astrophysical parameters for Gaia DR2 stars brighter than G = 18 |last1=Anders |first1=F. |last2=Khalatyan |first2=A. | ...[Thorne–Żytkow object]], but it is now thought to be an [[asymptotic giant branch]] star. ...

{{Short description|Scatter plot of stars showing the relationship of luminosity to stellar classification}} ...re found, and above the main sequence are the [[subgiant]]s, [[giant stars|giant]]s and [[supergiant]]s. The [[Sun]] is found on the main sequence at lumino ...

| type = [[Asymptotic giant branch]]<ref name=lombaert/> * [[List of largest known stars]] ...

| type=[[Asymptotic giant branch]]<ref name=Beck/> R Sct is the brightest of the RV Tau-type stars<ref name=GCVS-RV/> and the [[American Association of Variable Star Observer ...

...was once recognized as the best candidate for the [[List of largest known stars|largest known star]] when it was a [[red supergiant]],<ref name=levesque/> ...t=Westerlund |first=B. E. |date=1987 |title=Photometry and spectroscopy of stars in the region of a highly reddened cluster in ARA |journal=[[Astronomy & As ...

.... |date=2009-04-01 |title=The dust condensation sequence in red supergiant stars |doi-access=free |journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics |language=en |volume=498 ...B5 [[stellar association]] although apparently much younger than the other stars in the association.<ref name=Kusuno>{{Cite journal | last1 = Kusuno | first ...

...00A&A...355L..27H|title=The Tycho-2 catalogue of the 2.5 million brightest stars|journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics|volume=355|pages=L27|last1=Høg|first1=E. ...ards a spectral technique for determining material geometry around evolved stars: Application to HD 179821|journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical ...

...[[Cepheid variable]] [[star]]. They are young, [[population I]] [[variable stars]] that exhibit regular radial [[Stellar pulsation|pulsations]] with periods ...it is not easy to distinguish the mode from the shape of the light curve. Stars pulsating in an overtone are more luminous and larger than a fundamental mo ...

{{Short description|Branch of astronomy}} ...=Canup |first1=R. |last2=Asphaug |first2=E. |title=Origin of the Moon in a giant impact near the end of the Earth's formation |journal=Nature |date=August 2 ...