Other stars, not strictly horizontal branch stars, can lie in the same region of the H-R diagram. Stars too massive to develop a degenerate helium core on the red-giant branch will ignite helium before the tip of the red-giant branch and perform a blue loop. For stars only a little more massive than the sun, around 2 M ☉, the blue loop is very short and at a luminosity similar to the red clump giants. These stars are an order of magnitude less common than sun-like stars, even rarer compared to the sub-solar stars that can form red clump giants, and the duration of the blue loop is far less than the time spent by a red clump giant on the horizontal branch. This means that these imposters are much less common in the H–R diagram, but still detectable.