A supergiant star, in stellar classification, is a type of star of great mass and considerable brightness and size.
Supergiant stars are among the types of stars massive enough to end their lives as supernovae, with a massive gravitational collapse and explosion that ejects large amounts of gas and solid matter with a considerable amount of energy, sometimes leaving a remnant of a neutron star or black hole within a nebula of ejected stellar mass.
Supergiant stars have a habitable zone from 50-75 AU out to 200-300 AU and system boundary ranging from 3,240 to 12,960 AU. The ages of such stars range from 200 to 1,200 millennia. (Decipher RPG module: Worlds)
Types of supergiants[]
- orange supergiant
- blue supergiant
- red supergiant
Notable supergiant stars[]
Unnamed supergiant stars[]
In a distant corner of the galaxy, an unnamed supergiant star went supernova around the year 2230, leaving a neutron star remnant. At roughly the same time, Spock was born many light-years distant, on the planet Vulcan. (TOS novelization: Star Trek)
Connections[]
| Stellar classification | |
|---|---|
| By class and type | class O blue-violet star • class B blue star • class A blue-white star • class F white star (white dwarf) • class G yellow star (yellow dwarf • yellow giant) • class K orange star (orange giant) • class M red star (red dwarf • red giant • red supergiant) • boson star • brown dwarf • green star • N-type star • R-type star • S-type star • D-type star |
| By size or makeup | black hole/black star • carbon star • dwarf star (brown dwarf • red dwarf • white dwarf • yellow dwarf) • giant star (blue giant • red giant • orange giant • yellow giant) • Lazarus star • microstar • neutron star (collapsar • magnetar • pulsar) • protostar • supergiant • hypergiant • variable star • white hole • Wolf-Rayet star |
External links[]
- Supergiant star article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Supergiant article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.