swap_horiz Epsilon Aurigae Alternatives

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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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Polaris

Polaris is a bright star located in the constellation Ursa Minor. It’s notable as the current North Star due to its posi...

Supergiant F Type Ursa Minor North Star

9.2 Excellent

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Delta Cephei

Delta Cephei is a bright supergiant star within the Cepheus constellation. It’s notable as the original prototype for Ce...

Variable Supergiant Cepheus F Type

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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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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Capella

Capella is the brightest star in Auriga and the sixth brightest in the night sky, a system of two giant binary pairs abo...

Yellow Giant Auriga G 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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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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V838 Monocerotis

A red variable star in Monoceros that produced a spectacular eruption in January 2002, generating a light echo captured...

Supergiant Monoceros M Type Peculiar

8.7 Great

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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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Methuselah Star (HD 140283)

A metal-poor subgiant ~190 light-years away in Libra with an estimated age near 13.7 billion years, making it one of the...

Oldest Known F Type Libra Subgiant

8.4 Great

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W Virginis

W Virginis is the prototype of W Virginis variables (Type II Cepheids), population II pulsating stars that are older and...

Variable Supergiant Virgo F Type

8.2 Great

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FU Orionis

FU Orionis is the prototype of FU Orionis outbursts, young pre-main-sequence stars that undergo dramatic accretion-drive...

Orion F Type Pre Main Sequence Young Star

8.2 Great

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Xi Ursae Majoris

A quadruple star system ~27 light-years away in Ursa Major, historically significant as the first visual binary to have...

Historic Binary Ursa Major F Type

8.2 Great

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HD 93129A

HD 93129A is one of the most massive and luminous O-type stars known, located in the Carina Nebula region and estimated...

Hot Supergiant Carinae O Type

8.1 Great

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Rho Cassiopeiae

Rho Cassiopeiae is a yellow hypergiant in Cassiopeia, one of the most luminous stars in the galaxy, notable for a docume...

Yellow Cassiopeia Variable F Type

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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WASP-12

A yellow dwarf star ~870 light-years away hosting WASP-12b, a hot Jupiter being tidally disrupted and slowly consumed by...

Auriga F Type Hot Jupiter Main Sequence

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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Tureis

Rho Puppis, a Delta Scuti pulsating variable star in Puppis roughly 120 light-years away, whose IAU-approved proper name...

Bright Yellow Supergiant Puppis

7.2 Good