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By: Takquela Beattie. About P Cygni P Cygni is one of the hottest super giants in the Galaxy!!

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1 By: Takquela Beattie

2 About P Cygni P Cygni is one of the hottest super giants in the Galaxy!!

3 It loses mass at a rate of one solar masses every 10,000 years!

4 P Cygni is a bright blue star, therefore on the life-scale it will not live very long

5 The distance of P Cygni is not well known, but has been estimated as 7000 light years by Burnham, putting its absolute brightness to -8.9 magnitudes,. http://spider.seds.org/spider/Vars/pCyg.html

6 P Cygni is one of the most recent stars discovered.

7 Video!

8 P Cygni is visible in the night sky!

9 Pictures! The cloud around P Cygni

10 The END

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