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US
/ˈsupɝˈdʒaɪənt/
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NOUN
- an extremely bright star of very large diameter and low density
How To Use supergiant In A Sentence
- On one side hot hydrogen gas is illuminated by a supergiant blue star called V391 Velorum. RedOrbit News - Technology
- The discovery confirms the accepted theory that type II supernovas are produced when elderly, bloated stars known as red supergiants run out of nuclear fuel and collapse.
- Petrobras said the Lula field was Brazil's biggest, a "supergiant" field with an estimated Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
- Eventually, such a system will evolve further with the death of the remaining supergiant star.
- Some of Ara's stars are very distant: both Gamma Arae and Theta Arae lie more than 1,000 light years away, but both of these stars are brilliant supergiants, and so are clearly visible to the naked eye of an observer on Earth.
- Two big oilfields, including the 12.6 billion barrel "supergiant" Majnoon, were awarded on Friday, as oil majors from Asia and the West put aside concerns over security three days after car bombs killed 112 people in the Iraqi capital. Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories
- Betelgeuse is classified as a supergiant star, and its diameter is approximately 1,000 times that of the sun. Slashdot: Science
- In fact, it has become the coolest supergiant star ever found and all because of a single observation made by a dedicated amateur astronomer in Australia.
- Security fears weigh on Iraq's 2nd oil auction oil companies with its mother lode of oil met with mixed results Friday, with only two fears in the country as they began bidding Friday on the biggest stake in today won the contract for one of Iraq's "supergiant" oilfields, as part of a two-day auction intended to boost dramatically the WN.com - Articles related to Iraq premier opens auctions for 10 oil fields
- A "joint bid by Russian and Norwegian oil firms won the contract for the 'supergiant' West Qurna field, said to have reserves of 13bn barrels. Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day