swap_horiz Spica Alternatives

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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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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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PSR B1257+12

PSR B1257+12 is a rapidly rotating neutron star, or millisecond pulsar, in the constellation Virgo. Astronomers Aleksand...

Pulsar Neutron Star Virgo Exoplanet Host

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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Algol

Algol is a binary star system notable for its predictable dimming due to an eclipsing orbit. The primary and secondary s...

Prototype Variable Perseus B Type

9.1 Excellent

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Sirius B

Sirius B is a dense white dwarf star orbiting within the Sirius system of Canis Major. It represents the remnant core of...

Compact Binary White Dwarf Canis Majoris

9.1 Excellent

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Alpha Centauri B

Alpha Centauri B is a K-type main-sequence star located approximately 4.37 light-years from Earth in the Alpha Centauri...

Binary Centaurus Main Sequence K Type

9.0 Excellent

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Acrux

Acrux, officially designated Alpha Crucis, is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Crux, commonly known a...

Navigation Crux Multiple B Type

8.9 Great

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Fomalhaut

Fomalhaut is a bright, A-type main-sequence star located about 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Austrinus...

Navigation Debris Disk Main Sequence A Type

8.8 Great

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Regulus

Regulus, designated Alpha Leonis, is the brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere constellation of Leo. It is...

Navigation Leo B Type Main Sequence

8.8 Great

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Hadar

Hadar, officially designated Beta Centauri, is a prominent triple star system located in the southern constellation of C...

Navigation Giant Centaurus B Type

8.6 Great

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Adhara

Adhara is a binary star system located approximately 430 light-years away in the constellation Canis Major. The primary...

Binary Giant B Type Canis Majoris

8.2 Great

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Bellatrix

Bellatrix (Gamma Orionis) is the third-brightest star in the constellation Orion, marking the hunter's left shoulder. It...

Blue Navigation Orion Giant

8.1 Great

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Porrima

Porrima, formally Gamma Virginis, is a binary star system in the constellation Virgo about 38 light-years from Earth. It...

Bright Binary Virgo F Type

7.9 Good

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Alphecca

Alphecca, formally Alpha Coronae Borealis, is the brightest star in Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown, and lies about...

Bright Binary A Type Eclipsing

7.5 Good

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Sabik

Sabik, formally designated Eta Ophiuchi, is a binary star system and the second-brightest star in the constellation Ophi...

Bright Binary Ophiuchus A Type

7.3 Good

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Xamidimura

Xamidimura, designated as Mu¹ Scorpii, is a binary star system located in the southern constellation of Scorpius. It con...

Blue Binary Supergiant Scorpius

7.1 Good

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Syrma

ι Virginis (Syrma) is a white A-type main-sequence star in Virgo, located about 69 light-years from Earth, formally name...

Binary Zodiac Virgo F Type

6.9 Fair

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Furud

Furud is the proper name of Zeta Canis Majoris, a star system in the constellation Canis Major. Its visible primary is a...

Blue Binary B Type Main Sequence

6.8 Fair