Red giant — A red giant is a luminous giant star of low or intermediate mass (roughly 0.5 ndash;10 solar masses) that is in a late phase of stellar evolution. The outer atmosphere is inflated and tenuous, making the radius immense and the surface temperature … Wikipedia
Red rot — may refer to a number of degenerative processes:*Red rot (leather) *Red rot (brass), a process where the zinc in brass allows degrades leaving the metal brittle *Red rot, a late stage of wood decomposition where small chunks of decomposing wood… … Wikipedia
clump — [[t]klʌmp[/t]] n. 1) a small cluster, esp. of trees or other plants 2) a lump or mass 3) a heavy, thumping step, sound, etc 4) imu a cluster of agglutinated bacteria, red blood cells, etc 5) Also, clomp to walk heavily and clumsily. 6) imu to… … From formal English to slang
Red-shanked Douc — Taxobox name = Red shanked Douc status = EN trend = unknown status system = iucn3.1 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Primates familia = Cercopithecidae genus = Pygathrix species = P. nemaeus binomial = Pygathrix… … Wikipedia
Red baneberry — Taxobox name = Red baneberry image width = 200px image caption = Actaea rubra regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Magnoliopsida ordo = Ranunculales familia = Ranunculaceae genus = Actaea species = A. rubra binomial = Actaea rubra… … Wikipedia
clump — clumpy, clumpish, clumplike, adj. /klump/, n. 1. a small, close group or cluster, esp. of trees or other plants. 2. a lump or mass 3. a heavy, thumping step, sound, etc. 4. Immunol. a cluster of agglutinated bacteria, red blood cells, etc. 5. a… … Universalium
Tip of the red giant branch — (TRGB) is a primary distance indicator used in astronomy. It uses the luminosity of the brightest red giant branch stars in a galaxy to gauge the distance to that galaxy. It has been used in conjunction with observations from the Hubble Space… … Wikipedia
List of astronomy acronyms — This is a compilation of acronyms commonly used in astronomy. Most of the acronyms are drawn from professional astronomy and are used quite frequently in scientific publications. However, a few of these acronyms are frequently used by the general … Wikipedia
Hertzsprung–Russell diagram — Hertzsprung–Russell diagram[1] with 22,000 stars plotted from the Hipparcos catalog and 1,000 from the Gliese catalog of nearby stars. Stars tend to fall only into certain regions of the diagram. The most predominant is the diagonal, going from… … Wikipedia
Large Magellanic Cloud — The Large Magellanic Cloud Observation data (J2000 epoch) Constellation Dorado/Mensa … Wikipedia
