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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Astron.) A bright star of the first magnitude, near one shoulder of Orion.
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I was under the impression that some red giants were stars some 50 to up to 100 times the mass of the sun, such as I believe betelguese.
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