RED GIANT STAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does red giant star mean? 

• RED GIANT STAR (noun)
  The noun RED GIANT STAR has 1 sense:

1. a large, old, luminous star; has a relatively low surface temperature and a diameter large relative to the sun

  Familiarity information: RED GIANT STAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED GIANT STAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large, old, luminous star; has a relatively low surface temperature and a diameter large relative to the sun

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

red giant; red giant star

Hypernyms ("red giant star" is a kind of...):

star ((astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior)

 Context examples 

After that, all that remains of the star is what we see here: glowing outer layers surrounding a white dwarf star, the remnants of the red giant star’s core.

(Hubble Views Final Stages of a Star’s Life, ESA/NASA)

KELT-9 will swell to become a red giant star in a few hundred million years.

(Astronomers reveal discovery of the hottest gas giant exoplanet known yet, Wikinews)

Our Sun will swell to become a similar red giant star in about five billion years.

(Giant Bubbles on Red Giant Star’s Surface, ESO)

The astronomers also determined that the two stars that merged were of relatively low mass, one being a red giant star with a mass somewhere between 0.8 and 2.5 times that of our Sun.

(Stellar Corpse Reveals Origin of Radioactive Molecules, ESO)

One known source of cosmic dust is AGB stars, or stars with about the mass of the Sun that are running out of fuel and puff up to many times their original size to form a red giant star. (AGB stars are one type of red giant star.)

(Exploding Stars Make Key Ingredient in Sand, Glass, NASA)