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Answer by lana witon
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A super giant star is a huge star that is either red or blue. The blue ones are really hot and the red ones are really cool. A super giant star is a large star larger than are sun. It has a short life span of 10-50 million years because of its large mass. They can be red or blue. The red ones are cold and the blue ones are really hot. They usually have masses of about 20 times that of our sun. However their atmosphere is not as dense, allowing them to be very big. Some, such as Betelgeuse are large enough to swallow over a billion of our suns! At the end of their lives they explode in a class II supernova leaving a super-compact core that either collapses into a black hole, or remains as a fast-spinning neutron star. For example the super giant star, Aldebaran's is so big that if u put it where are sun is it would reach out to Jupiter! This is over 10 billion miles! Super giant stars that a red, mean they are the coldest star, but still much hotter than us humans could stand. The blue ones are extremely hot. Since they are so large the don't have such a large life span...when they explode they either leave a super dense neutron star-or a black whole with enough gravity to suck in just about anything in it path. A black whole is just a dense planet with a Strong gravitational pull.

Answer by lalaboy
Submitted on 6/18/2006
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This is to Maha you are right on almost everything you said. You said that the orbit of Jupiter is 10 billion miles this is incorrect being that the orbit of Pluto,the furthest known planet is not even 1/2 that far away. The orbit of Jupiter is between 900 million miles and a billion miles, but still this is a huge object this star Aldebaran. I was looking at supergiants and hypergiants star articles the other day and I ran across a supergiant star that have a diameter of 2 billion miles. The article said that this star is so huge that it has the volume of 250 billion suns. When you think that the sun is big enough to contain one million earths you realize this supergiant is big enough to hold 250 trillion earths. If you allow for each star in the galaxy having 9 planets like our star Sol has, all the 400 billion stars estimated to be in this galaxy, would come out to 3.9 trillion stars. This huge star alone could hold 64 times more planets than there are in our galaxy. That is indeed a very huge object. But I suppose that as mankind ability to invent better and better instruments for looking into the universe we will find stars alot larger than the one I am referring to (I forgot the name of it). I would expect that eventually we will find stars larger than our whole solar systems and will be big enough to hold trillions of suns. I often wonder if there are not stars out there bigger than our solar system and planets bigger than our sun. Just because we humans think that something can't be don't mean that it isn't. I would not be suprise that decades from now we want find stars that are light years across. Personally I believe there is a GOD that says He created all things and that include the vast limitless universe. And the further we will be able to see with our telescopes the more wonders we will see.

Answer by Ujjal
Submitted on 10/17/2006
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stars of very high mass expend to become even larger than red giants.Red supergiants can have radii several hundred times that of the sun.just like red giants, they undergo hytrogen-shell burning and have the main sequence.When they have finished hydrogen-shell burning,they collapse and the helium core reaches a high enough temperature for the helium to be converted in to carbon and oxygen.Helium-core burning is briefer than hydrogen burning,and when the helium core is depleled,helium-shell burning begins.If massaive enough,further nuclear burning will accur, producing elements with an atomic mass up to the iron.Near the end of supergiants phase ,a high-mass star will develop several layers of increasingly heavy elements.Eventually, supergiants dies as supernovae

Answer by mini
Submitted on 2/13/2007
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A supergiant star is the largest star. The red ones are cooler than the blue ones, the blue ones are hotter. The smaller the star the hotter it is. Like a Neutron star is very hot, because it is not using up as much entergy so it is brighter. Also the larger the star the shorter the life. Like the sun is 5 billion years old, and it will live for 5 billion more years. But a star that is more it's mass will only live about 10 million years, and stars that are really small will live much more than 10 billion years. Some star's light takes a long time to get here, so say if 725 years ago a star was born, and it is 800 light years away, when the light gets here it is like you are looking into the past!!!!! Science is so cool, at times.

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Question by berd
Submitted on 1/8/2004
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what is supergiant star?

Answer by y
Submitted on 1/12/2004
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ahhh dang this astronmy

Answer by freese
Submitted on 4/5/2004
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A supergiant star is a huge star that is either red or blue. The blue ones are really hot and the red ones ar really cool.

Answer by big johnson form stew-stras
Submitted on 4/7/2004
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A super giant star is a large star larger than are sun. It has a short life span of 10-50 million years because of it's large mass. they can be red or blue. The red ones are cold and the blue ones are really hot.

Answer by GreenGloop
Submitted on 4/28/2004
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Ah, Superpergiants are cool! They usually have masses of about 20 times that of our sun. However their atmosphere is not as dense, allowing them to be very big. Some, such as betelgeuse are large enough to swallow over a billion of our suns! At the end of their lives they explode in a class II supernova leaving a super-compact core that either collapses into a black hole, or remains as a fast-spinning neutron star.

Answer by irisha
Submitted on 6/2/2004
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Supergiant star is a star that is bigger than the Sun.

Answer by maha
Submitted on 6/10/2004
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Super giant star are quite interesting! For example the super giant star,Aldebaran's is so big that if u put it where are sun is it would reach out to Jupiter! which is over 10 billion miles! Super giant stars that a red, mean they are the coldest star, but still much hotter than us humans could stand. The blue ones are extremely hot. Since they are so large the don't have such a large life span...when they explode they either leave a super dense neutron star-or a black whole with enough gravity to suck in just about anything in it path. A black whole is just a dense planet with a Strong gravitational pull.

Answer by Mafioso
Submitted on 6/17/2004
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it's a star that is super and giant. You smell

Answer by Muffin
Submitted on 6/20/2004
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ummm.....ya i hate science

Answer by I am an Extraterrestrial
Submitted on 9/4/2004
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A super giant star is a pre-blackhole or a pre-neutron star, in fact a neutron star is a pre-blackhole, and all super giant stars become neutron stars, then the neutron star becomes a blackhole or a pulstar or just a simple neutron star.

Answer by star master abdul
Submitted on 9/8/2004
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it was created in a nuclear spill near texas, where a small cat was fused with a man with leperacy and suddenly grew 50 foot tall, he now lives in Tasmania (Australia) and preffers the company of other men. his name is shawn "The Super Giant".

Answer by alex
Submitted on 9/11/2004
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a supergiant star is one of the most coolest stars but what make it so inter. is its so big. the life spand is cool. if the star has alot of density it will turn in to a black hole but if not it will turn in to a white dwarf and die.

Answer by space master abdul
Submitted on 9/15/2004
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well it began when the USA where doing chemical testing in the pacific ocean, where one of the bombs radiation wave hit a small island known as "dnalsi", the radiation caused a migit leper to grow 57 feet high and turn his disease lepracy into super human powers. His name was Shawn zaky, another thing the radiation caused was hair to grow in unusual places on his body, everyone laughed at him. he swam to Australia and lives on the small island under Australia called "Tasmania" he fits in really well there as they are all inbreed due to running out of people who werent related to them, so all became inbreed. he know is famously known as a super giant...

Answer by amber
Submitted on 9/19/2004
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a super giant star is the biggest star it is made by giant stars exploding from nuclear fusion and making a bigger star the blue are really hott and the red are cold they don't live that long and when they die they will explode and become a black hole or just a very dense star

Answer by fudg n' nuts w/ whipped cream
Submitted on 10/3/2004
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I don't like science! I like fudge. I also like hot fudge. I also like peanuts in fudge. I also like fudge with whipped cream.

Answer by getonthecanquick
Submitted on 11/30/2004
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaah ahhhhh... supergiants were once normal giants until they were put in a spaceship and landed on earth. ta da! its a bird! its a plane! its supergiant!!!!!!!!! ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh poopy poop

Answer by Amor
Submitted on 11/4/2004
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Supergiants are stars that can be up to 20 times the size of our closest star, our sun. There are two different types of Supergiants. There are red ones, which are colder, and blue ones, which are hotter. This contradicts our commonly used colors of red being hot and blue being cold.

Answer by oversized butt
Submitted on 11/14/2004
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hey man stars are COOL.cool breez man.word out.shhooooo.dawg

Answer by Hi yall fellow duckies
Submitted on 12/6/2004
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If you dont like supergiant stars physco stalkers chickens will come and hunt you in your sleep! (u can be sure of that!)

Answer by sal
Submitted on 12/6/2004
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ba humbug! why do we have to learn about these little specks of light in the sky

Answer by DECALFE
Submitted on 1/12/2005
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I HATE SCIENCE BUT AN EXAMPLAE OF A RED SUPER GIANT STAR IS BETALGEUSE is the second largest star in the constalation of Orion which is avout 20 times massive than the sun and is about 1400 times brighter than the sun. Stars like our sun will live for about 10 billion years . Stars less massive than the sun will live alot longer life span than it .

Answer by adanaC
Submitted on 3/5/2005
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aahh look at it

Answer by �X� Dont' Ask �X�
Submitted on 3/6/2005
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A super giant star is what happens to a high mass proto-star after about 100million years. The hydrogen makes the star expand and become much larger than its original size.The star is then called a super giant, which will eventually blow up and become a supernova which then can become a giant space vacuum (a black hole) or a neutron star which is only about 20 kilometer in diameter. Pretty amazing eh?

Answer by cooliegirl
Submitted on 3/24/2005
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ummm i like science but it is SO boring!!!:(

Answer by jess
Submitted on 4/26/2005
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the only reason i did this is for science. i love science,just not that part. Veternarians rock off my sox!!!!!!!:)

Answer by Predator7015
Submitted on 5/12/2005
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Maha is a nerd

Answer by Kevster
Submitted on 5/15/2005
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yeah but no but i was walking down da street and i saw this massive star. it didnt do nothin so shut up!Anyway it is a SUPERGIANT star.oh my gosh, i just so cannot believe you just said that.so anway i gotta go c ya

Answer by your mom
Submitted on 6/7/2005
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Mr Wynne is weird

Answer by kiki
Submitted on 8/7/2005
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what is a neutron star

Answer by skooge
Submitted on 9/7/2005
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i scream, you scream, we all scream for green beans!

Answer by Desi
Submitted on 9/8/2005
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A super giant star is either blue or red. Blue means it is hot and red means it is cold. Super giant stars are bigger than the sun. Since they are so large their life span is short.

Answer by jello
Submitted on 10/15/2005
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equal to the volume of the hikdiesjikiohdjgsefgnbegh if the earths atmosphere reacts to the chemical squared by mass

Answer by nsb
Submitted on 10/26/2005
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a supergiant star is an extremely huge star that is about 15 to 30 solar mass. (for you ignorant people out there that means that a supergiant star could be around 15 to 30 times the mass of our sun.) }:-b

Answer by Candy Kiss
Submitted on 1/17/2006
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does anyone know how hot r supergiants!!!?

Answer by Monkey Butt
Submitted on 2/2/2006
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a supergiant star is a star that has gone through life as an outsider. they are usually very very depressive stars. they stay alone and sometimes they just cant take it anymore and they blow themselves up. :( its so sad the life of a supergiant star. take pity on them. thank you and good night

Answer by whatchamacallit
Submitted on 2/11/2006
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A supergiant star is like a really big star, but the red ones are cooler and the blue ones are very hot. It converts hydrogen to helium and the central layers core contract and the outer layers expand. Blue supergiants are young, the red ones are old.