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Sun

The Sun is a G-type main sequence star, our closest stellar neighbor. This yellow dwarf provides nearly all the energy t...

Solar G Type Main Sequence Nearest Star

9.2 Excellent

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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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Vega

Vega is a main sequence A-type star located in the constellation Lyra approximately 25 light-years from Earth. It’s nota...

Lyra Debris Disk Main Sequence A Type

9.2 Excellent

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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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Alpha Centauri A

Alpha Centauri A is a G-type main-sequence star located in the Alpha Centauri system, approximately 4.37 light-years fro...

Centaurus G Type Main Sequence Nearest System

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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Altair

Altair is a brilliant A-type main-sequence star located within the constellation Aquila. Situated just 17 light-years fr...

Aquila Nearby Main Sequence A Type

9.1 Excellent

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Regulus

Regulus is the brightest star in Leo, about 79 light-years away, and rotates so quickly that it bulges noticeably at its...

Navigation Leo B Type Main Sequence

8.8 Great

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Beta Pictoris

A young A-type star in Pictor notable for a circumstellar debris disk discovered in 1984 and hosting at least two direct...

Pictor Debris Disk Main Sequence A Type

8.8 Great

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HR 8799

An A-type star in Pegasus that in 2008 became the first multi-planet system to be directly imaged, with four confirmed g...

Pegasus Direct Imaging Multi Planet Main Sequence

8.8 Great

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Merak

β Ursae Majoris (Merak) is one of the two pointer stars in the Big Dipper used to locate Polaris, a white A-type star ap...

White Ursa Major Main Sequence A Type

8.5 Great

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Delta Scuti

Delta Scuti is an A-type pulsating variable that is the prototype of the Delta Scuti class of short-period pulsators wid...

Scutum Main Sequence A Type Pulsating

8.1 Great

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KELT-9

A hot A-type star ~670 light-years away in Cygnus, hosting KELT-9b, the hottest known hot Jupiter exoplanet, whose daysi...

Cygnus Main Sequence A Type Exoplanet Host

8.1 Great

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Megrez

δ Ursae Majoris (Megrez) is the faintest of the seven Big Dipper stars, an A-type main-sequence star marking the junctio...

White Ursa Major Main Sequence A Type

7.8 Good

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Denebola

Beta Leonis, the second-brightest star in Leo, a white main-sequence star about 36 light-years away and a confirmed memb...

Bright Leo Debris Disk Main Sequence

7.7 Good

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Zosma

Zosma (Delta Leonis) is a blue-white star about 58 light-years away, located on the hip of Leo the Lion and notable as a...

Bright White Leo Main Sequence

7.4 Good

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Alphekka Meridiana

α Coronae Australinae (Alphekka Meridiana) is the brightest star in the Southern Crown constellation, a white A-type bin...

Bright Southern Corona Australis Main Sequence

7.1 Good

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Meridiana

Meridiana is the IAU-approved official name (2016) for α Coronae Australinae, the brightest star in Corona Australina, a...

Bright Corona Australis Main Sequence A Type

7.1 Good

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Heze

ζ Virginis (Heze) is an A-type main-sequence star in Virgo, approximately 74 light-years from Earth, with a traditional...

White Zodiac Virgo Main Sequence

6.8 Fair

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Vega B

A designation for a proposed faint stellar companion to Vega, a nearby A0 star ~25 light-years away that defines the zer...

Lyra Debris Disk Main Sequence A Type

5.5 Mediocre