giant branch
Astronomy
noun
A region extending above and to the right of the main sequence, where giant stars are plotted in a Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in James Hopwood Jeans (1877–1946), mathematician and astronomer.
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