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carbon star
noun
, Astronomy.
- a relatively cool, red giant having a spectrum with strong bands of carbon compounds.
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So rather than lean too heavily on them, their team is combining measurements based on multiple kinds of standard-candle stars from the Gaia data set, including Cepheids, RR Lyrae stars, tip-of-the-red-giant-branch stars and so-called carbon stars.
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