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Hypergiants (luminosity class 0, Ia-0 or Ia+) are the most luminous and most massive stars known, being several times brighter than even the bright supergiants. Only a few such stars are known in the Milky Way.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Category:Hypergiants” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.