swap_horiz FU Orionis 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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Betelgeuse

Betelgeuse is a massive red supergiant star located within the constellation Orion. It’s notable due to its immense size...

Orion Variable M Type Red 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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T Tauri

T Tauri is the prototype of T Tauri variables, a class of young pre-main-sequence stellar objects first identified in th...

Variable Taurus G Type Pre Main Sequence

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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Mintaka

Delta Orionis, the westernmost star in Orion's Belt, a multiple-star system roughly 900 light-years away that lies almos...

Orion Giant Multiple Belt Star

8.5 Great

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Theta1 Orionis C

Theta1 Orionis C is the most massive and luminous member of the Trapezium cluster in the Orion Nebula, an O-type star re...

Massive Orion Main Sequence O Type

8.4 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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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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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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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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Epsilon Aurigae

A supergiant eclipsing binary in Auriga that undergoes a two-year-long eclipse every 27 years, with the eclipsing body i...

Supergiant Auriga F Type Long Period

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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Porrima

Gamma Virginis, a binary system in Virgo comprising two nearly identical yellow-white stars about 38 light-years away, l...

Bright Binary Virgo F Type

7.9 Good

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Iota Horologii

Iota Horologii is a young Sun-like star about 57 light-years from Earth with a confirmed hot Jupiter exoplanet discovere...

F Type Main Sequence Exoplanet Host Young Star

7.2 Good