Star Classification (category, by size)

A list by

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: science astronomy planets categories

• Supergiants
  are the largest stars, and may have diameters several hundred times the size of the Sun.
• Giants
  are more common than Supergiants, and have diameters 10 to 100 times as large as the Sun.
• Red Giants
  have cooler temperatures than giants, and are thus less bright, but their size is still massive.
• Medium-size or dwarf stars
  are about as large as the sun.
• White dwarfs
  are small stars (smaller than the distance across Asia).