blue giant

English

Noun

blue giant (plural blue giants)

1. (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 / 蓝巨星 (zh) (lánjùxīng)

• Finnish: sininen jättiläinen
• 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)
• Macedonian: син џин m (sin džin)
• Polish: błękitny olbrzym m
• 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