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    NML Cygni or V1489 Cygni (abbreviated to NML Cyg or V1489 Cyg) is a red hypergiant or red supergiant (RSG) in the constellation Cygnus. It is possibly...
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    Cygnus (constellation) (redirect from Cygni)
    stellar association of Cygnus OB2. One of the stars of this association, NML Cygni, is one of the largest stars currently known. The constellation is also...
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    = 7 × 10 − 3 {\displaystyle q=7\times 10^{-3}} for the red supergiant NML Cygni and q = 2 × 10 − 3 {\displaystyle q=2\times 10^{-3}} in the long-period...
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    most extended and unstable red supergiants like VY Canis Majoris and NML Cygni. The "red" part of "red supergiant" refers to the cool temperature. Red...
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    000 R☉. Mu Cephei VV Cephei A NML Cygni S Persei VY Canis Majoris - potentially the largest star in the Milky Way KY Cygni PZ Cassiopeiae HD 143183 UY Scuti...
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    431..773R. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20042039. ISSN 0004-6361. Data about NML Cygni (IRC +40448) is found here at VizieR. Zhang, B.; Reid, M. J.; Menten,...
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    and luminous stars known List of most massive stars Westerlund 1 W26 NML Cygni WOH G64 Mistakenly referred to as RSGC1-01. Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia...
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    ; Brunthaler, A. (2012). "The distance and size of the red hypergiant NML Cygni from VLBA and VLA astrometry" (PDF). Astronomy & Astrophysics. 544: A42...
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    Way), although its true nature was uncertain. Its most analogous star is NML Cygni, another notable but less studied extreme cool hypergiant star within...
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    discovered in the 1970s by Bengt Westerlund, N. Olander and B. Hedin. Like NML Cygni, the "WOH" in the star's name comes from the last names of its three discoverers...
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    to have increased its average brightness of 0.5 magnitudes. NML Cygni KY Cygni RW Cygni This is only the age at which the star enters the red supergiant...
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    580±80 d. No long secondary period has been detected. BC Cygni BI Cygni NML Cygni KY Cygni Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018)...
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    follows: O + S2 → S + SO SO2 → SO + O Sulfur monoxide has been found in NML Cygni. Sulfur monoxide may have some biological activity. The formation of transient...
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    variable Cyg OB2 #12. It also includes one of the largest known stars, NML Cygni. The region is embedded within a wider one of star formation known as...
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    it took 12 million years to enter the red supergiant phase. RW Cygni KY Cygni NML Cygni Vallenari, A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (2023). "Gaia Data Release...
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  • angular diameter was re-measured at 5.05±0.5 mas in 2023. VY Canis Majoris NML Cygni KW Sagittarii UY Scuti Vallenari, A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (2023)...
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  • Astérix-1 on board, becoming the third country to enter space. Discovery of NML Cygni, a red hypergiant and the largest star known, at about 1,650 times the...
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    like VY Canis Majoris, one of the largest stars known, together with NML Cygni, VX Sagittarii and Trumpler 27-1 all have radii larger than that of the...
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    star. Hypergiant List of most luminous stars List of most massive stars NML Cygni — one of the largest stars and red supergiants BAT99-98 — one of the most...
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  • rates are not high for other hypergiant stars such as VY Canis Majoris, NML Cygni and IRC+10420. As a possible post-red supergiant star, Stephenson 2 DFK...
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    IK Tauri (redirect from NML Tauri)
    initials of their discoverers as NML Cygni and NML Tauri. It was identified as a Mira variable in 1967. The name NML Tauri fell into disuse after the...
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    ; Brunthaler, A. (2012). "The distance and size of the red hypergiant NML Cygni from VLBA and VLA astrometry". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 544: A42. arXiv:1207...
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    Sagittarii VY Canis Majoris AH Scorpii MY Cephei PZ Cassiopeiae IRC −30308 NML Cygni IRC +10420 WOH G64 Later found to be a possible super-AGB star. Kemper...
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  • 240000 8.12-8.29 NML Cygni 5250+420 −360 M4.5–M7.9 Ia–III 1,350+195 −229 25 229,000+40,000 −41,000, 270,000+50,000 −50,000 16.60 P Cygni 5300±590 B1-2Ia-0ep...
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    calculated even more lower temperatures and an estimated radius of 2,400 R☉. NML Cygni — another late-type red supergiant or hypergiant star. VY Canis Majoris...
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    envelopes toward VY Canis Majoris, TX Camelopardalis, R. Cassiopeiae, and NML Cygni. ALMA data alongside spectroscopic measurements from the Rosetta probe...
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    stars" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-01-08. "Masers; the OH molecule detection in NML cygni / OH80.8-1.9". Retrieved 2019-01-07. "Complex object W3(OH) at methanol...
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  • Nick Vasi. - Uncle Ernie's "toys" - bioengineered horrors. No Man's Land (NML), by Lawrence R. Sims, Doug Nelson, Benjamin Pierce, Louis Norton, & Geoff...
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