Very luminous massive stars that are hotter than the red supergiants, with blue-white or yellow surfaces, such as Rigel, Deneb and Polaris. A star belongs here when its cited article calls it a blue, white or yellow supergiant. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.
All Blue and Yellow Supergiants
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Polaris (Wikipedia)
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Polaris is a yellow supergiant star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor.
Rigel (Wikipedia)
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Rigel is a blue supergiant star in the equatorial constellation of Orion.
Deneb (Wikipedia)
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Deneb () is a blue supergiant star in the constellation of Cygnus.
Alnilam (Wikipedia)
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This is a massive, blue supergiant star some 1,250 light-years distant.
Saiph (Wikipedia)
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Saiph , designation Kappa Orionis (κ Orionis, abbreviated Kappa Ori, κ Ori) and 53 Orionis (53 Ori), is a blue supergiant star and the sixth-brightest star in the constellation of Orion.
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