blue giant

noun

, Astronomy.

1. any of the large, bright stars having surface temperatures of about 20,000 K and diameters that are often ten times that of the sun.

Example Sentences

It’s located about 1,000 light years from Earth and it’s visible thanks to the ionization of gases by the blue giant star Persei.

From BBC

Those stars shed hydrogen into the space around them as they became a blue giant tens of thousands of years before the supernova.

From Science Daily

That ring-shaped cloud of gas was then buffeted by the stream of high-speed charged particles coming off the blue giant, known as a stellar wind.

From Science Daily

This blue giant star lies 97 light-years from Earth and shines 200 times brighter than our sun.

From National Geographic

Richard Horner is an owner of Blue Giant, a New Orleans restaurant.

From New York Times