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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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Arcturus

Arcturus is a prominent K-type giant star located in the constellation Boötes. It’s notable for being the brightest star...

Orange Giant Northern Sky K Type

9.2 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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Sirius B

Sirius B is a dense white dwarf star orbiting within the Sirius system of Canis Major. It represents the remnant core of...

Compact Binary White Dwarf Canis Majoris

9.1 Excellent

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Alpha Centauri B

Alpha Centauri B is a slightly smaller, cooler K-type star orbiting Alpha Centauri A, together forming the nearest star...

Binary Centaurus Main Sequence K Type

9.0 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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Procyon

Procyon is the brightest star in Canis Minor and eighth brightest in the night sky, a binary system with a white dwarf c...

Bright Binary F Type Main Sequence

8.7 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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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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55 Cancri

A binary star in Cancer hosting five confirmed exoplanets, including 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth that completes an orbit...

Binary Cancer Nearby G Type

8.5 Great

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P Cygni

A luminous blue variable in Cygnus that erupted around 1600 CE and is the namesake of the P Cygni spectral line profile,...

Massive Cygnus Luminous Blue Variable Outburst

8.5 Great

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Pollux

Pollux is an orange giant in Gemini about 34 light-years away and the nearest giant star to the Sun; it hosts a confirme...

Orange Giant Gemini K Type

8.4 Great

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HD 189733

A K-type main-sequence star in Vulpecula whose hot Jupiter companion was the first exoplanet to have its atmospheric com...

Vulpecula Hot Jupiter Main Sequence K Type

8.4 Great

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Procyon B

The white dwarf companion to Procyon A in Canis Minor, its existence inferred from Procyon's proper-motion wobble decade...

Compact Binary White Dwarf Nearby

8.4 Great

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Beta Gemini

Beta Gemini (Pollux) is the nearest giant star to Earth at about 34 light-years, the brightest star in Gemini, with a co...

Orange Giant Gemini K Type

8.4 Great

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Thuban

Alpha Draconis, a star in Draco that served as Earth's north pole star around 2700 BCE due to the slow 26,000-year wobbl...

Binary Giant Draco A Type

8.3 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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Izar

Izar (Epsilon Boötis) is a celebrated telescopic double star in Boötes, prized for its vivid color contrast between an o...

Colorful Binary Giant K Type

8.1 Great

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WR 140

WR 140 is a colliding-wind binary of a Wolf-Rayet and O-type star in Cygnus with a 7.9-year eccentric orbit, producing p...

Binary Wolf Rayet Cygnus Colliding Wind

8.1 Great

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Avior

Epsilon Carinae, a bright binary system in the southern constellation Carina roughly 630 light-years away, included amon...

Binary Giant Southern Carinae

7.7 Good