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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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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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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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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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Eta Carinae

Eta Carinae is an exceptionally large and volatile star located within the Carina Nebula. It’s notable for its dramatic...

Massive Carinae Pre Supernova Luminous Blue Variable

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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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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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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Pistol Star

A luminous blue hypergiant near the Galactic Center and among the most luminous stars in the Milky Way, revealed in the...

Massive Luminous Sagittarius Galactic Center

8.1 Great

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Gamma Velorum

Gamma Velorum is the brightest Wolf-Rayet star visible to the naked eye, a multiple-star system in Vela containing a WC8...

Massive Vela Multiple Wolf Rayet

8.1 Great

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WR 140

WR 140 is a colliding-wind binary of a Wolf-Rayet and O-type star in Cygnus with a 7.9-year eccentric orbit, producing p...

Binary Wolf Rayet Cygnus Colliding Wind

8.1 Great

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S Doradus

S Doradus is a luminous blue variable in the Large Magellanic Cloud that is the prototype of S Doradus variability, defi...

Luminous Variable Lmc Luminous Blue Variable

8.1 Great

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WR 104

WR 104 is a Wolf-Rayet star in Sagittarius that forms a rotating pinwheel nebula with its O-star companion and is consid...

Binary Wolf Rayet Sagittarius Pinwheel Nebula

8.0 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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WR 102

WR 102 is a WO-type Wolf-Rayet star with a surface temperature exceeding 200,000 K, making it one of the hottest known s...

Compact Massive Wolf Rayet Sagittarius

7.9 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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Peony Star

The Peony Star (WR 102ka) is a Wolf-Rayet star near the Galactic center and a contender for the most luminous star in th...

Massive Wolf Rayet Sagittarius Galactic Center

7.7 Good

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Fang

π Scorpii (Fang) is a triple star system in Scorpius, roughly 590 light-years from Earth, whose name originates from the...

Blue Luminous Supergiant Scorpius

7.1 Good