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Uncommon card · Science
Blue supergiant, an Uncommon card
A blue supergiant is a hot, luminous star, often referred to as an OB supergiant.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 44
- Power
- 109
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 36,000
Power 109 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Blue supergiant quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Blue supergiant card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
By ______ to the red giant branch for low-mass stars, this region is also called the blue giant branch.
Answer
analogy. By analogy to the red giant branch for low-mass stars, this region is also called the blue giant branch. From the Blue supergiant article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Carbide. Carbide 64,000 · Boiling 48,000 · Blue supergiant 36,000 · Geochronology 26,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- They are usually considered to be those with luminosity class I and spectral class B9 or earlier, although sometimes A-class supergiants are also deemed blue supergiants.
- Blue supergiants are found towards the top left of the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram, above and to the right of the main sequence.
- By analogy to the red giant branch for low-mass stars, this region is also called the blue giant branch.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Blue supergiant article was read about 36,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 44: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Blue supergiant
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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- GodhraUncommon · Society · ATK 59 DEF 50
- Abdul Ali MazariUncommon · History · ATK 65 DEF 44
- JothimaniUncommon · History · ATK 60 DEF 49
Card lists
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Blue supergiant (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : User:Spacepotato, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
