# luminous blue variable

> class of variable stars; highly luminous blue pulsing super- or hypergiants

**Wikidata**: [Q742741](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q742741)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous_blue_variable)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/luminous-blue-variable


## References

1. [General Catalogue of Variable Stars. 2009](http://www.sai.msu.su/gcvs/gcvs/iii/vartype.txt)
2. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
3. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)