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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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Acrux

Acrux is the brightest star in Crux (the Southern Cross), a multiple star system about 320 light-years away used for nav...

Navigation Crux Multiple B Type

8.9 Great

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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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R136a1

A Wolf-Rayet star in the R136 cluster of the Large Magellanic Cloud, regarded as the most massive known star with an ini...

Luminous Wolf Rayet Lmc Doradus

8.8 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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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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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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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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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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Cygnus OB2-12

Cygnus OB2-12 is a blue hypergiant in the Cygnus OB2 association and one of the most intrinsically luminous stars in the...

Luminous Cygnus B Type Hypergiant

7.8 Good

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Aludra

Eta Canis Majoris, a blue supergiant roughly 3,000 light-years away in Canis Major and one of the most intrinsically lum...

Blue Bright Supergiant B Type

7.7 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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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