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Sun

The Sun is a G-type main sequence star, our closest stellar neighbor. This yellow dwarf provides nearly all the energy t...

Solar G Type Main Sequence Nearest Star

9.2 Excellent

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Vega

Vega is a main sequence A-type star located in the constellation Lyra approximately 25 light-years from Earth. It’s nota...

Lyra Debris Disk Main Sequence A Type

9.2 Excellent

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Alpha Centauri A

Alpha Centauri A is a G-type main-sequence star located in the Alpha Centauri system, approximately 4.37 light-years fro...

Centaurus G Type Main Sequence Nearest System

9.2 Excellent

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Regulus

Regulus is the brightest star in Leo, about 79 light-years away, and rotates so quickly that it bulges noticeably at its...

Navigation Leo B Type Main Sequence

8.8 Great

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Epsilon Eridani

Epsilon Eridani is a young K-type star about 10.5 light-years away, one of the nearest stars with a confirmed debris dis...

Nearby Eridanus Main Sequence K Type

8.5 Great

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Shaula

Shaula is the second-brightest star in Scorpius, a multiple-star system about 570 light-years away that marks the tip of...

Bright Multiple Scorpius B Type

8.3 Great

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Alkaid

Eta Ursae Majoris, the star at the tip of the Big Dipper's handle, a blue-white main-sequence star about 104 light-years...

Blue Ursa Major B Type Main Sequence

8.3 Great

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Mu Arae

Mu Arae is a Sun-like star about 50 light-years from Earth with four confirmed exoplanets, including one of the first de...

Southern Ara G Type Multi Planet

7.8 Good

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Alnair

Alnair is the brightest star in Grus, a blue-white subgiant about 101 light-years away whose name derives from Arabic me...

Bright Southern Grus B Type

7.5 Good

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Nunki

Sigma Sagittarii, the second-brightest star in Sagittarius, a blue-white main-sequence star about 228 light-years away a...

Bright Sagittarius B Type Main Sequence

7.5 Good

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Rana

δ Eridani (Rana) is a yellow-orange subgiant in Eridanus, one of the nearest subgiant stars to Earth at about 29 light-y...

Orange Nearby Eridanus Main Sequence

7.4 Good

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HD 28185

HD 28185 is a solar analog about 138 light-years from Earth with an exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone, discov...

Eridanus G Type Habitable Zone Main Sequence

7.3 Good

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Phact

Alpha Columbae, a blue-white subgiant and the brightest star in the southern constellation Columba, with an apparent mag...

Bright Southern B Type Columba

7.1 Good

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Alphekka Meridiana

α Coronae Australinae (Alphekka Meridiana) is the brightest star in the Southern Crown constellation, a white A-type bin...

Bright Southern Corona Australis Main Sequence

7.1 Good

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Muliphein

Gamma Canis Majoris, a blue-white giant star in Canis Major with the IAU-approved Arabic-derived name Muliphein, not to...

Blue Bright B Type Main Sequence

7.0 Good

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Azha

η Eridani (Azha) is an orange K-type giant in Eridanus, roughly 133 light-years from Earth, with a traditional Arabic na...

Bright Orange Eridanus Main Sequence

7.0 Good

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Alpha Mensae

A G7 main sequence star in Mensa ~33 light-years away, the brightest star in its constellation yet barely visible to the...

Southern G Type Solar Analog Main Sequence

6.9 Fair

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Furud

Zeta Canis Majoris, a spectroscopic binary star in Canis Major whose IAU-approved name Furud derives from an Arabic phra...

Blue Binary B Type Main Sequence

6.8 Fair

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Lacaille 2966

Lacaille 2966 is a red dwarf star about 15.1 light-years from Earth in Antlia, listed in Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille's 18t...

Southern Nearby Pictor Main Sequence

6.8 Fair

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Sun-like HD 101364

A G-type main sequence star studied as a solar analog candidate due to its close similarity to the Sun in surface temper...

Southern Centaurus G Type Solar Analog

6.8 Fair