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Sirius

Sirius is the most luminous star visible from Earth. It’s a binary star system consisting of a brilliant white A-type ma...

Navigation Binary A Type Brightest Star

9.2 Excellent

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Rigel

Rigel is a brilliant blue supergiant star located within the constellation Orion. It’s notable for its extreme luminosit...

Blue Navigation Orion Supergiant

9.2 Excellent

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Canopus

Canopus is a massive, white-yellow supergiant star located in the Carina constellation. It’s notable for being the secon...

Navigation Supergiant F Type Second Brightest

9.1 Excellent

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Aldebaran

Aldebaran is a red giant star located in the constellation Taurus approximately 65 light-years from Earth. As the bright...

Navigation Red Giant Taurus

9.1 Excellent

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Algol

Algol is a binary star system notable for its predictable dimming due to an eclipsing orbit. The primary and secondary s...

Prototype Variable Perseus B Type

9.1 Excellent

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Spica

Spica is the brightest star in Virgo, a binary system of two close blue giants about 250 light-years away whose mutual g...

Navigation Binary Virgo B Type

8.9 Great

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Fomalhaut

Fomalhaut is the brightest star in Piscis Austrinus, about 25 light-years away, and hosts a prominent debris disk that y...

Navigation Debris Disk Main Sequence A Type

8.8 Great

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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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Castor

Castor is the second-brightest star in Gemini and a famous sextuple star system about 51 light-years away, comprising th...

Bright Gemini Multiple A Type

8.7 Great

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Alnitak

Alnitak is the easternmost star in Orion's Belt, a multiple system dominated by a blue supergiant about 800 light-years...

Orion Multiple Supergiant Belt Star

8.7 Great

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Hadar

Hadar, also called Beta Centauri, is a triple star system in Centaurus and one of the two pointer stars used to locate t...

Navigation Giant Centaurus B Type

8.6 Great

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Dubhe

Alpha Ursae Majoris, one of the two pointer stars in the Big Dipper that direct observers toward Polaris, an orange gian...

Navigation Giant Ursa Major K Type

8.5 Great

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Mintaka

Delta Orionis, the westernmost star in Orion's Belt, a multiple-star system roughly 900 light-years away that lies almos...

Orion Giant Multiple Belt Star

8.5 Great

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Achernar

Achernar is the brightest star in Eridanus and among the least spherical known stars, spinning so rapidly it is signific...

Southern Eridanus B Type Main Sequence

8.4 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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Adhara

Adhara is the brightest star in Canis Major after Sirius, a blue supergiant about 430 light-years away and one of the st...

Binary Giant B Type Canis Majoris

8.2 Great

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Gacrux

Gacrux is the nearest red giant to the Sun at about 88 light-years away, forming the top of the Southern Cross and class...

Red Giant Crux M Type

8.2 Great

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Almach

Almach (Gamma Andromedae) is a multiple star system in Andromeda celebrated as a showpiece telescopic double for its con...

Orange Colorful Multiple Andromeda

8.2 Great

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Bellatrix

Bellatrix is the third-brightest star in Orion, a blue giant about 250 light-years away that marks the hunter's left sho...

Blue Navigation Orion Giant

8.1 Great