Skowron explained that Cepheids are giant stars that are far brighter than the sun.

斯考伦解释说，造父变星是比太阳明亮得多的超巨星。

Astronomers using NASA's Kepler space telescope analyzed a giant star called Kepler 56, about 3,000 light-years from Earth.

天文学家利用 NASA 的开普勒宇宙望远镜分析了距地约3000光年的巨星“开普勒56”。

Only weird and amazing giant stars and smaller heavenly bodies, whirling among the gas clouds in an infinite, infinite universe.

只有奇怪而惊人的巨星和较小的天体在无边无际的宇宙中的气云间旋转。

Red giant stars in the disc of Andromeda.

仙女座圆盘中的红巨星。

He was a giant star, easily one of the greatest comedians of his generation.

他是一位巨星， 很容易成为他那一代最伟大的喜剧演员之一。

And then it becomes a different sort of star – it becomes a giant star and that’s probably curtains for us, actually.

以后太阳会变得与现在不同。它会成为一个巨大的恒星，这或许意味着我们的末日的到来。

However, the sun evolving into a red giant star will take 7 or 8 billion years, so don’t worry too much about this happening.

不过， 太阳演化成红巨星需要7、80亿年的时间，所以不要太担心这种事情的发生。

Yes, it does. And as a giant star, the sun will get hotter – it will make the Earth toasty. Now, toasty usually means hot in a nice way.

是的。太阳变大同时也会变热，会使地球变得暖烘烘的。通常我们说暖烘烘表达的是一种舒适的感受。

Exoplanets have been detected around stars like the Sun as well as tiny, cool red dwarfs: hot, massive blue stars; and even red giants, stars nearing the ends of their lives.

热的、大质量的蓝色恒星，甚至还有红巨星，也有接近其生命终点的恒星。

Most likely, the sun will expand into a into a red giant star, and vaporize the inner planets of our solar system including the earth as it collapses and dies.

最有可能的是， 太阳会膨胀成一颗红巨星，并在地球坍缩和死亡时蒸发我们太阳系的内行星， 包括地球。