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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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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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Achernar

Achernar is the brightest star in Eridanus and among the least spherical known stars, spinning so rapidly it is signific...

Southern Eridanus B Type Main Sequence

8.4 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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Elnath

Elnath, also called Beta Tauri, is a blue-white giant shared on the border of Taurus and Auriga, about 130 light-years a...

Bright Giant Taurus B Type

7.8 Good

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Kaus Australis

Epsilon Sagittarii, the brightest star in Sagittarius, a blue-white giant about 143 light-years away and a standard star...

Bright Giant Sagittarius B 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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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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Alnair

Alnair is the brightest star in Grus, a blue-white subgiant about 101 light-years away whose name derives from Arabic me...

Bright Southern Grus B Type

7.5 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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Zavijava

Beta Virginis, an F8 main sequence star ~35.6 light-years away in Virgo, historically used as an astrometric reference p...

Bright Zodiac Virgo F Type

7.3 Good

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Ascella

Zeta Sagittarii, a binary star system in Sagittarius and one of the brighter members of the Teapot asterism, whose IAU-a...

Bright Binary Sagittarius A Type

7.2 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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Phact

Alpha Columbae, a blue-white subgiant and the brightest star in the southern constellation Columba, with an apparent mag...

Bright Southern B Type Columba

7.1 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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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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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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Azha

η Eridani (Azha) is an orange K-type giant in Eridanus, roughly 133 light-years from Earth, with a traditional Arabic na...

Bright Orange Eridanus Main Sequence

7.0 Good