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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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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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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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51 Pegasi

51 Pegasi is a G-type main-sequence star located approximately 50 light-years from Earth within the Pegasus constellatio...

Pegasus G Type Hot Jupiter Main Sequence

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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Capella

Capella is the brightest star in Auriga and the sixth brightest in the night sky, a system of two giant binary pairs abo...

Yellow Giant Auriga G Type

8.9 Great

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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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Barnard's Star

Barnard's Star is a red dwarf 5.96 light-years away in Ophiuchus and holds the record for the highest proper motion of a...

Ophiuchus Nearby M Type Red Dwarf

8.8 Great

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HD 209458

A Sun-like star in Pegasus whose planet HD 209458 b was the first exoplanet detected by the transit method in 1999 and l...

Pegasus G Type Main Sequence Transiting Exoplanet

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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V838 Monocerotis

A red variable star in Monoceros that produced a spectacular eruption in January 2002, generating a light echo captured...

Supergiant Monoceros M Type Peculiar

8.7 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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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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Mirach

Mirach (Beta Andromedae) is a red giant in Andromeda widely used by amateur astronomers as a guide star for locating the...

Navigation Red Giant Andromeda

8.0 Great

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Markab

Markab (Alpha Pegasi) is a blue-white giant forming one corner of the Great Square of Pegasus, an asterism used as a gui...

Hot Giant Pegasus B Type

7.7 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