supergiant
IPA: sˈupɝdʒˈaɪʌnt
noun
- (astronomy) A very large star having a mass between 10 and 70 solar masses.
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Examples of "supergiant" in Sentences
- One new supergiant field a year isn't enough.
- Thermonuclear event within a massive supergiant.
- A red giant or supergiant is orbited by a blue star.
- An 8 AU view of the sun compared to a red supergiant.
- Never again will I use the word "supergiant" lightly ...
- Does yellow supergiant evolve from blue or white supergiant.
- Antares is a red supergiant star in the constellation of Scorpius.
- But the red giant and supergiant articles don't mention it at all.
- Also in the sector is a red supergiant star known as Murcheson's Eye.
- Betelgeuse and Antares are the best known examples of a red supergiant.
- Also in the sector is a red supergiant star known as 'Murcheson's Eye'.
- Petrobras said the Lula field was Brazil's biggest, a "supergiant" field with an estimated
- Betelgeuse is classified as a supergiant star, and its diameter is approximately 1,000 times that of the sun.
- Scientists say the term "supergiant" was coined by US researchers when they found some large amphipods in the early 1980s.
- The Lula field will be Brazil's first "supergiant" oil field, with a recoverable volume above five billion BOE, Mr. Barbassa said.
- A "joint bid by Russian and Norwegian oil firms won the contract for the 'supergiant' West Qurna field, said to have reserves of 13bn barrels."
- Two big oilfields, including the 12.6 billion barrel "supergiant" Majnoon, were awarded on Friday, as oil majors from Asia and the West put aside concerns over security three days after car bombs killed 112 people in the Iraqi capital.
- Security fears weigh on Iraq's 2nd oil auction oil companies with its mother lode of oil met with mixed results Friday, with only two fears in the country as they began bidding Friday on the biggest stake in today won the contract for one of Iraq's "supergiant" oilfields, as part of a two-day auction intended to boost dramatically the
- Major oil companies gain foothold in Iraq multinational players are hopeful of lucrative developments in the future More than six-and-a-half years after the US-led invasion that oil companies to rebuild its ailing infrastructure during two today won the contract for one of Iraq's "supergiant" oilfields, as part of a two-day auction intended to boost dramatically the