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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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Naos

Naos (Zeta Puppis) is one of the hottest and most luminous stars visible to the naked eye, a blue O-type supergiant with...

Blue Supergiant Puppis O Type

8.6 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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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

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Mirfak

Alpha Persei and brightest star in Perseus, a yellow-white supergiant roughly 590 light-years away and the gravitational...

Bright Cluster Supergiant Perseus

8.0 Great

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Wezen

Delta Canis Majoris, a yellow-white supergiant roughly 1,600 light-years away and among the most intrinsically luminous...

Yellow Luminous Supergiant F Type

7.9 Good

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Enif

Enif (Epsilon Pegasi) is an orange supergiant marking the nose of Pegasus and is the brightest star in that constellatio...

Bright Orange Pegasus Supergiant

7.9 Good

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Elnath

Elnath, also called Beta Tauri, is a blue-white giant shared on the border of Taurus and Auriga, about 130 light-years a...

Bright Giant Taurus B Type

7.8 Good

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Kaus Australis

Epsilon Sagittarii, the brightest star in Sagittarius, a blue-white giant about 143 light-years away and a standard star...

Bright Giant Sagittarius B Type

7.8 Good

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Mirzam

Beta Canis Majoris, a blue-white giant roughly 500 light-years away that serves as the prototype for the class of pulsat...

Blue Giant Variable B Type

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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Sadalsuud

Sadalsuud (Beta Aquarii) is the brightest star in Aquarius, a yellow supergiant whose Arabic name means 'luckiest of the...

Bright Yellow Aquarius Supergiant

7.4 Good

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Paikauhale

τ Scorpii (Paikauhale) is a hot blue giant in Scorpius notable for strong stellar winds and X-ray emission, bearing a Ha...

Blue Bright Giant Scorpius

7.2 Good

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Kraz

β Corvi (Kraz) is the second-brightest star in Corvus, a yellow-white bright giant of spectral type G5, located approxim...

Blue Bright Giant Corvus

7.1 Good

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Fang

π Scorpii (Fang) is a triple star system in Scorpius, roughly 590 light-years from Earth, whose name originates from the...

Blue Luminous Supergiant Scorpius

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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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