luminous blue variable
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class of variable stars; highly luminous blue pulsing super- or hypergiants
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- supergiant
- Named after
- S Doradus
- Image
- ESO-Eta Carinae-phot-17a-08-normal.jpg
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- Commons category
- Luminous blue variable stars
- short name
- LBV
- catalog code
- SDOR
- topic's main category
- Category:Luminous blue variables
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Encyclopedic overview
Luminous blue variable AG Carinae as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope Luminous blue variables (LBVs) are rare, massive, evolved stars that show unpredictable and sometimes dramatic variations in their spectra and brightness. They are also known as S Doradus variables after S Doradus, one of the brightest stars of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Discovery and history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “luminous blue variable” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.