blue giant

English

Noun

blue giant (plural blue giants)

(astronomy) a very hot and very luminous star that emits visible light in the blue portion of the spectrum

Related terms

blue supergiant

Translations

very luminous star

Chinese:
Mandarin: 藍巨星 (zh), 蓝巨星 (zh) (lánjùxīng)
French: géante bleue (fr) f
Georgian: ლურჯი გიგანტი (lurǯi giganṭi)
German: Blauer Riese m
Hungarian: kék óriás

Irish: fathach gorm m
Japanese: 青色巨星 (あおいろきょせい, aoiro-kyosei)
Portuguese: gigante azul f
Russian: голубо́й гига́нт m (golubój gigánt)
Serbo-Croatian: плави џин m (plavi džin)
Spanish: gigante azul f

See also

red giant

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