How to Use supergiant in a Sentence

supergiant

noun

• The blue supergiant is an O-type star, one of the most massive star types known.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Oct. 2022
• Astronomers have captured the death of a red supergiant star for the first time.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 14 Jan. 2022
• The star is a blue-white supergiant located 870 light-years away from the Sun.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
• Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star that glows orange-red in the sky.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
• At the time, the best candidate for a black hole was Cygnus X-1, one of the strongest x-ray sources in the sky, centered on a supergiant star.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 20 Mar. 2018
• From Earth's perspective, one of the brightest stars in the sky is the red supergiant Betelgeuse.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2020
• At the hunter’s foot is the brightest star in the constellation: a blue supergiant named Rigel.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Jan. 2024
• For blue supergiants, with dozens of times the Sun's mass, the models stop exploding.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2018
• Blue supergiant stars do not have life spans of nine billion years.
  — Washington Post, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• For insomniacs or predawn risers, the moon and the red supergiant star Antares pair up for a sight to see in the southern sky.
  — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2021
• Bright orange supergiant star Aldebaran will lurk on the Moon’s left-hand side.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 11 Apr. 2021
• And the detailed properties of the event were a much better fit to a red supergiant, one that was roughly 500 times the size of the Sun at the time of its explosion.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2022
• And that would make sense, Betelgeuse is pretty old for a red supergiant, which burn out more quickly than our star.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 21 July 2020
• Antares, the red supergiant beating at the heart of Scorpius, soon emerged, and then the entire scorpion’s tail curled across the sky and dipped into the stream of stars that is the Milky Way.
  — Adam Pretty, National Geographic, 2 Aug. 2016
• Antares, the red supergiant beating at the heart of Scorpius, soon emerged, and then the entire scorpion’s tail curled across the sky and dipped into the stream of stars that is the Milky Way.
  — Adam Pretty, National Geographic, 2 Aug. 2016
• Tonight the waxing 40%-lit Moon will be just 4° above red supergiant star Antares in the southwestern night sky just after dark.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2021
• They are thought to form when red giant or red supergiant star collides with a neutron star.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2021
• At that size during the red supergiant phase, the black hole’s outer layers should have swelled up to where the sun-like star orbits it today.
  — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2022
• Betelgeuse is a red supergiant, a star late in its life that has expanded to an enormous size.
  — Erika K. Carlson, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2019
• By Caleb Scharf What do a common cold-causing virus, an adult blue whale and the red supergiant star Betelgeuse have in common?
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2017
• Pulsars are the remains of long-dead stars, the cores of supergiants left over from the tremendous explosions that consumed them.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 10 Oct. 2017
• The star on the right shoulder of the Orion constellation is a red supergiant called Betelgeuse.
  — Shannon Stirone, Wired, 18 Jan. 2020
• Some amphipods are tiny, but others, known as supergiants, can grow up to 13 inches long.
  — Susan Casey, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2019
• In oil, a find of 1 billion barrels is regarded as a supergiant.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2011
• Pledger’s findings confirmed the stellar culprit to be a red supergiant.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 21 July 2023
• The star system, called WR140, includes a Wolf-Rayet star and a blue supergiant star swirling around one another in an orbit that takes eight years to complete.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Oct. 2022
• Along with main sequence and white dwarf stars, other groups include dwarfs, giants, and supergiants.
  — Catherine Zuckerman, National Geographic, 20 Mar. 2019
• One of the brightest, biggest and best orange supergiant stars is Aldebaran, the brightest star in the constellation of Taurus, the bull.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2021
• Betelgeuse About 640 light years away from Earth is Betelgeuse, the red supergiant star in the constellation Orion.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 14 June 2023
• The next step is figuring out if this happens to all red supergiant stars, or just some, as well as what exactly is happening in the final stages of the star's life.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024