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- noun Plural form of
hypergiant .
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Yellow hypergiants are rare, massive stars living in a phase of a star's life cycle that generally only lasts a few hundred thousand years - a flash in the lifespan of the galaxy.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Like all hypergiants, it has a very low density and is only some 30 to 40 times the Sun's mass.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] JacobB 2010
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Like all [[Supergiant#Hypergiants | hypergiants]], it has a very low density and is only some 30 to 40 times the Sun's mass.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] JacobB 2010
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Like all [[Supergiant#Hypergiants | hypergiants]], it has a very low density and is only some 30 to 40 times the Sun's mass.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] JacobB 2010
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Wow, I just learned about hypergiants, galatic filaments, the Sloan Great Wall, Lyman-alpha blobs, and a bunch of other cool shit by following the links in this post.
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