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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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Arcturus

Arcturus is a prominent K-type giant star located in the constellation Boötes. It’s notable for being the brightest star...

Orange Giant Northern Sky K 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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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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Proxima Centauri

Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star located just over four light-years away, making it our nearest stellar neighbor. It...

M Type Nearest Star Exoplanet Host Red Dwarf

9.2 Excellent

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TRAPPIST-1

TRAPPIST-1 is an ultra-cool dwarf star located approximately 40 light-years from Earth. It’s notable for hosting a syste...

Aquarius M Type Exoplanet Host Ultra Cool Dwarf

9.2 Excellent

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V645 Centauri

V645 Centauri is an M-type red dwarf star located within the Alpha Centauri system, approximately 4.37 light-years from...

Centaurus Nearby M Type Red Dwarf

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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Aldebaran

Aldebaran is a red giant star located in the constellation Taurus approximately 65 light-years from Earth. As the bright...

Navigation Red Giant Taurus

9.1 Excellent

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RR Lyrae

The prototype of RR Lyrae-type pulsating variable stars in Lyra, widely used as standard candles for measuring distances...

Giant Lyra A Type Pulsating

9.0 Excellent

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Mira

Omicron Ceti, prototype of long-period Mira-type variable stars, pulsating over a roughly 332-day cycle between naked-ey...

Giant Variable Cetus M Type

8.9 Great

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Hadar

Hadar, also called Beta Centauri, is a triple star system in Centaurus and one of the two pointer stars used to locate t...

Navigation Giant Centaurus B Type

8.6 Great

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Dubhe

Alpha Ursae Majoris, one of the two pointer stars in the Big Dipper that direct observers toward Polaris, an orange gian...

Navigation Giant Ursa Major K Type

8.5 Great

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Gacrux

Gacrux is the nearest red giant to the Sun at about 88 light-years away, forming the top of the Southern Cross and class...

Red Giant Crux M 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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Alpheratz

Alpheratz (Alpha Andromedae) was historically shared between Andromeda and Pegasus as Delta Pegasi, forming a corner of...

Hot Giant Andromeda B Type

8.1 Great

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Scheat

Scheat (Beta Pegasi) is a pulsating red giant in the Great Square of Pegasus, notable for irregular brightness variation...

Red Giant Pegasus M Type

7.7 Good

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Groombridge 34

Groombridge 34 is a binary red dwarf system about 11.6 light-years from Earth in Andromeda, catalogued by English astron...

Binary Nearby Andromeda M Type

7.4 Good

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Tania Australis

μ Ursae Majoris (Tania Australis) is a red M-type giant in Ursa Major, about 250 light-years from Earth, whose Arabic na...

Bright Red Giant Ursa Major

7.0 Good

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Giausar

Lambda Draconis, a red giant star in the constellation Draco, whose IAU-approved proper name Giausar derives from an Ara...

Red Giant Draco M Type

6.7 Fair