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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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    also known as the Northern Cross. 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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    stars: Mu Cephei VV Cephei A NML Cygni RW Cephei S Persei VY Canis Majoris - potentially the largest star in the Milky Way KY Cygni PZ Cassiopeiae HD 143183...
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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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    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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    and luminous stars known List of most massive stars Westerlund 1 W26 NML Cygni WOH G64 – Most likely the largest known star VY Canis Majoris Name only...
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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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    = 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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    discovered in the 1970s by Bengt Westerlund, Olander and Hedin. Like NML Cygni, the "WOH" in the star's name comes from the names of its three discoverers...
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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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    they considered VY CMa and another notable extreme cool hypergiant star, NML Cygni, as normal early-type red supergiants. They assert that earlier very high...
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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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    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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  • angular diameter was re-measured at 5.05±0.5 mas in 2023. VY Canis Majoris NML Cygni KW Sagitarii UY Scuti Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (2021)...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    ; 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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    to have increased its average brightness of 0.5 magnitudes. NML Cygni KY Cygni RW Cygni Applying the Stefan–Boltzmann law with a nominal solar effective...
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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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    Sagittarii VY Canis Majoris AH Scorpii MY Cephei PZ Cassiopeiae IRC −30308 NML Cygni IRC +10420 WOH G64 Later found to be an AGB star. Kemper, F.; De Koter...
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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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    calculated even more lower temperatures and an estimated radius of 2,400 R☉. NML Cygni — another late-type red supergiant or hypergiant star. WOH G64 — a late-type...
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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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