Mira is a red giant star in the constellation Cetus. It is the prototype of the Mira variable star class. Mira also has a companion white dwarf, Mira B. Mira A was the second largest known star in 1925, surpassed by only Antares. Mira A was previously thought to be a red supergiant star but is now known to be only a red giant. In 1997, the Hubble Space Telescope imaged the Mira system. Mira A is quickly losing mass, shedding material into space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mira A<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Radius (in Solar Radii): 402 R<\/em>\u2609<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n Diameter (in Kilometers): 559,584,000 km<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mass (in Solar Masses): 1 M<\/var>\u2609<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n Distance (in Light Years): 300 ly<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spectral type: M7\u00a0IIIe (Red)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mira B<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Radius (in Solar Radii): 0.015 R<\/em>\u2609<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n Diameter (in Kilometers): 20,880 km<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mass (in Solar Masses): 0.24 M<\/var>\u2609<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n Spectral type: DA (White Dwarf)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mira is a red giant star in the constellation Cetus. It is the prototype of the Mira variable star class. Mira also has a companion white dwarf, Mira B. Mira A was the second largest known star in 1925, surpassed by only Antares. Mira A was previously thought to be a red supergiant star but is now known to be… Continue reading Mira<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,7,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-red-giant-stars","category-stars","category-stars-in-the-constellation-cetus","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}