En astronomía se denomina gigante azul (blue giant en inglés) a las estrellas de tipo espectral O o B y clase de luminosidad III (clase de las gigantes). En el diagrama de Hertzsprung-Russell estas estrellas se encuentran en la parte superior izquierda dada su alta luminosidad y su tipo espectral temprano (es decir, su alta temperatura superficial).

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In astronomy, a blue giant is a hot star with a luminosity class of III (giant) or II (bright giant). In the standard Hertzsprung–Russell diagram, these stars lie above and to the right of the main sequence. The term applies to a variety of stars in different phases of development, all evolved stars that have moved from the main sequence but have little else in common, so blue giant simply refers to stars in a particular region of the HR diagram rather than a specific type of star. They are much rarer than red giants, because they only develop from more massive and less common stars, and because they have short lives in the blue giant stage. The name blue giant is often misapplied to other high-mass luminous stars, such as main-sequence stars, simply because they are large and hot.

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