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What is a gigantism?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 2/22/2023

One of two groups of stars on the Hertzsprung -Russell diagram that have a different set of properties than the main sequence stars; bright, low-temperature giant stars that are enormously bright for their temperature.

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