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    Mu Cephei (Latinized from μ Cephei, abbreviated Mu Cep or μ Cep), also known as Herschel's Garnet Star, Erakis, or HD 206936, is a red supergiant or hypergiant...
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    hypergiant, together with the red supergiants Mu Cephei, MY Cephei, VV Cephei, V381 Cephei, and V354 Cephei are among the largest stars known. In addition...
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    yellow hypergiant that is one of the brightest to the naked eye; and Mu Cephei (Herschel's "Garnet Star"), one of the largest and brightest stars known...
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    In astronomy, a semiregular variable star, a type of variable star, is a giant or supergiant of intermediate and late (cooler) spectral type showing considerable...
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  • described the four red supergiant stars, KW Sagittarii, V354 Cephei, KY Cygni and Mu Cephei as the largest and most luminous galactic red supergiants with...
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    examples of stars in this mass range include Antares, Spica, Gamma Velorum, Mu Cephei, and members of the Quintuplet Cluster. Type Ia supernova progenitors...
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    than other famous red supergiants such as Antares A, Betelgeuse, VV Cephei A, Mu Cephei, VY Canis Majoris, WOH G64, and UY Scuti. Nevertheless, its size...
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    671J. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20066353. ISSN 0004-6361. S2CID 17789027. "Mu Cephei | aavso". www.aavso.org. Retrieved 6 October 2024. Ramstedt, S.; Olofsson...
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    Population III stars. Such stars would dwarf VY Canis Majoris, Mu Cephei and VV Cephei A, three among the largest known modern stars. Once the black hole...
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    Tsuji, T. (2000). "Water on the Early M Supergiant Stars α Orionis and μ Cephei". The Astrophysical Journal. 538 (2): 801–07. Bibcode:2000ApJ...538..801T...
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