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star in an intermediate stage of evolution, characterized by a large volume, low surface temperature, and reddish hue

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  • -- PhysicsWord. com, Earth could survive a red-giant Sun Let's take the sun out of the equation.
  • It's a picture of silver globes in the hot fringes of a red-giant star, ducking and diving as they try to find just the right place to meet - or to gain advantage in a...
  • The new discovery is helping astronomers to understand what will happen to the planets in our solar system when our sun becomes a red-giant star, expanding so much that...
  • I pictured a world, a planet circling a red-giant.
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