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    Luminous blue variables (LBVs) are rare, massive and evolved stars that show unpredictable and sometimes dramatic variations in their spectra and brightness...
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  • This is a list of luminous blue variable stars in order of their distance from Earth. The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is around 163 kly distant and the...
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    giants Blue giants Bright giants Supergiants Red supergiant Hypergiants absolute magni- tude (MV) A blue supergiant (BSG) is a hot, luminous star, often...
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    P Cygni (category Luminous blue variables)
    Earth, it is a hypergiant luminous blue variable (LBV) star of spectral type B1-2 Ia-0ep that is one of the most luminous stars in the Milky Way. The...
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    Hypergiant (redirect from Blue hypergiant)
    these are small except for two distinct instability regions where luminous blue variables (LBVs) and yellow hypergiants are found. Because of their high...
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    them. Although no supernovae have been observed in NGC 3109 yet, a luminous blue variable, designated AT 2018akx (type LBV, mag. 17.5), was discovered on...
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    lives in the blue giant stage. Because O-type and B-type stars with a giant luminosity classification are often somewhat more luminous than their normal...
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    class of variables is named after Beta Cephei. Classical Cepheids (or Delta Cephei variables) are population I (young, massive, and luminous) yellow supergiants...
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    S Doradus (category Luminous blue variables)
    roughly 160,000 light-years away. The star is a luminous blue variable, and one of the most luminous stars known, having a luminosity varying widely above...
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    J.; Burggraf, Birgitta (2014-07-02). "LUMINOUS AND VARIABLE STARS IN M31 AND M33. II. LUMINOUS BLUE VARIABLES, CANDIDATE LBVs, Fe II EMISSION LINE STARS...
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