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Uncommon card · Science
Giant star, an Uncommon card
A giant star has a substantially larger radius and luminosity than a main-sequence star of the same surface temperature.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 44
- Power
- 106
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 26,000
Power 106 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Giant star quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Giant star card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Giant stars have radii up to a few hundred times the Sun and ______ over 10 times that of the Sun.
Answer
luminosities. Giant stars have radii up to a few hundred times the Sun and luminosities over 10 times that of the Sun. From the Giant star article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Mike Phelan. Mike Phelan 48,000 · Cycle sport 37,000 · Giant star 26,000 · Ashton Bell 18,000 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 lie above the main sequence on the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram and correspond to luminosity classes II and III.
- The terms giant and dwarf were coined for stars of quite different luminosity despite similar temperature or spectral type by Ejnar Hertzsprung in 1905 or 1906.
- Giant stars have radii up to a few hundred times the Sun and luminosities over 10 times that of the Sun.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Giant star article was read about 26,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 44: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Giant star
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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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Giant star (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : User:Spacepotato, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
