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hypergiant

very rare star with tremendous luminosity and very high rates of mass loss by stellar winds
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hypergiant
Oliver Krause (Steward Observatory) George H. Rieke (Steward Observatory) Stephan M. Birkmann (Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie) Emeric Le Floc'h (Steward Observatory) Karl D. Gordon (Steward Observ · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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hypergiant

Summary

hypergiant ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (332 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • hypergiant's image is recorded as Cassiopeia A Spitzer Crop.jpg[2].
  • hypergiant's image is recorded as VY Canis Hypergiant.jpg[3].
  • hypergiant's subclass of is recorded as star[4].
  • hypergiant's Commons category is recorded as Hypergiant stars[5].
  • hypergiant's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05x_nk[6].
  • hypergiant's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Hypergiants[7].
  • hypergiant's BabelNet ID is recorded as 01404293n[8].
  • hypergiant's Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID is recorded as 774[9].
  • hypergiant's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 135815294[10].
  • hypergiant's Pixiv Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 極超巨星[11].

Why It Matters

hypergiant ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (332 views/month).[1] hypergiant has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] hypergiant is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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