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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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RR Lyrae

The prototype of RR Lyrae-type pulsating variable stars in Lyra, widely used as standard candles for measuring distances...

Giant Lyra A Type Pulsating

9.0 Excellent

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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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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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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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Alioth

Alioth is the brightest star in Ursa Major, an unusual chemically peculiar star about 83 light-years away and the bright...

Bright Ursa Major A Type Peculiar

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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Etamin

Gamma Draconis, the brightest star in Draco, an orange giant about 154 light-years away; James Bradley's observations of...

Bright Orange Giant Draco

8.3 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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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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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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Miaplacidus

Miaplacidus is the second-brightest star in Carina, a blue-white giant about 113 light-years away and one of the brighte...

Bright Giant Southern A Type

7.8 Good

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Rasalhague

Alpha Ophiuchi, the brightest star in Ophiuchus, a binary star with a white primary about 47 light-years away; its Arabi...

Bright Binary Giant Ophiuchus

7.8 Good

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Alphecca

Alphecca (Alpha Coronae Borealis) is the brightest star in the small arc-shaped constellation Corona Borealis, a spectro...

Bright Binary A Type Eclipsing

7.5 Good

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Alsephina

Delta Velorum, the brightest star in the southern False Cross asterism in Vela, a binary system whose IAU proper name Al...

Bright Binary Giant Vela

7.4 Good

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Talitha

ι Ursae Majoris (Talitha) is a four-star system in Ursa Major, about 48 light-years from Earth, whose traditional Arabic...

Bright White Binary Ursa Major

7.4 Good

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Sabik

Eta Ophiuchi, the second-brightest star in Ophiuchus, a binary system of two white A-type stars with an orbital period o...

Bright Binary Ophiuchus A Type

7.3 Good

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Aspidiske

Iota Carinae, a yellow-white supergiant in Carina forming part of the False Cross asterism, whose IAU-approved name Aspi...

Bright Giant Southern A Type

7.3 Good

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Ascella

Zeta Sagittarii, a binary star system in Sagittarius and one of the brighter members of the Teapot asterism, whose IAU-a...

Bright Binary Sagittarius A Type

7.2 Good

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Algorab

δ Corvi (Algorab) is the third-brightest star in Corvus, a white A-type main-sequence star approximately 87 light-years...

Bright White Binary Corvus

7.2 Good