Supergiant
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A very large star, in fact the most massive of the bunch. They are about 10 to 70 times the size of our Sun and can be hundreds of thousands of times brighter. Because of their extreme mass, they are very short lived compared to other stars with a life span of only 10 million years.
Because they live fast, [die young] and leave a beautiful [nebula] in their wake, supergiants can only been seen in places like the arms of spiral [galaxies], open clusters and irregular galaxies. Places where new stars are born frequently.Supergiant meaning & definition 1 of Supergiant.
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an extremely large star that is between 10,000 and 100,000 times brighter than the sun
Supergiant meaning & definition 2 of Supergiant.