![Hypergiant](https://cdn.statically.io/img/static.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/e/e4/Hypergiant.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/180?cb=20171111093359&path-prefix=en)
Enterprise approaches a hypergiant
![Vissian pod above the hypergiant](https://cdn.statically.io/img/static.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/1/13/Vissian_pod_above_the_hypergiant.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/180?cb=20220904210518&path-prefix=en)
A Vissian stratopod above the hypergiant's surface
A hypergiant was a rare type of star that shared similar characteristics with a supergiant star, but was a hundred times more massive than Sol. The theoretical life span of a hypergiant was one to two million years. Like its supergiant companions, a hypergiant star would go supernova when it exhausted its supply of fuel and gravity crushed the inert remains.
In 2153, Enterprise NX-01 was the first Earth starship to research a red hypergiant in a range closer than ten light years; it was nearly a billion kilometers in circumference and was not expected to go supernova for another one or two hundred years. Their hull reached a temperature of 1,100 degrees, making it unsafe to approach any closer to the hypergiant. (ENT: "Cogenitor")
In the final draft script of "Cogenitor", the hypergiant star therein was described as "a star on the verge of a supernova explosion. A central blue sun is surrounded by swirling bands of orange gasses. An awe-inspiring sight."
In 3190, Ruon Tarka theorized that the controller at the center of the Dark Matter Anomaly would require an energy source equivalent to a hypergiant star to stabilize the gravitational anomaly. (DIS: "The Examples")