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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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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 slightly smaller, cooler K-type star orbiting Alpha Centauri A, together forming the nearest star...

Binary Centaurus Main Sequence K Type

9.0 Excellent

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Spica

Spica is the brightest star in Virgo, a binary system of two close blue giants about 250 light-years away whose mutual g...

Navigation Binary Virgo B Type

8.9 Great

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R136a1

A Wolf-Rayet star in the R136 cluster of the Large Magellanic Cloud, regarded as the most massive known star with an ini...

Luminous Wolf Rayet Lmc Doradus

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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Albireo

Albireo (Beta Cygni) is a visually striking double star in Cygnus celebrated for its contrasting amber and sapphire-blue...

Colorful Binary Cygnus K Type

8.6 Great

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55 Cancri

A binary star in Cancer hosting five confirmed exoplanets, including 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth that completes an orbit...

Binary Cancer Nearby G Type

8.5 Great

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P Cygni

A luminous blue variable in Cygnus that erupted around 1600 CE and is the namesake of the P Cygni spectral line profile,...

Massive Cygnus Luminous Blue Variable Outburst

8.5 Great

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Procyon B

The white dwarf companion to Procyon A in Canis Minor, its existence inferred from Procyon's proper-motion wobble decade...

Compact Binary White Dwarf Nearby

8.4 Great

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Kepler-22

A G-type star in Cygnus hosting Kepler-22 b, announced in 2011 as the first confirmed planet orbiting within the habitab...

Cygnus G Type Habitable Zone Main Sequence

8.3 Great

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Thuban

Alpha Draconis, a star in Draco that served as Earth's north pole star around 2700 BCE due to the slow 26,000-year wobbl...

Binary Giant Draco A Type

8.3 Great

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Adhara

Adhara is the brightest star in Canis Major after Sirius, a blue supergiant about 430 light-years away and one of the st...

Binary Giant B Type Canis Majoris

8.2 Great

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Kepler-452

A G-type star in Cygnus whose planet Kepler-452 b, announced in 2015, was the first near-Earth-sized world found in the...

Cygnus G Type Habitable Zone Main Sequence

8.2 Great

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Xi Ursae Majoris

A quadruple star system ~27 light-years away in Ursa Major, historically significant as the first visual binary to have...

Historic Binary Ursa Major F Type

8.2 Great

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Izar

Izar (Epsilon Boötis) is a celebrated telescopic double star in Boötes, prized for its vivid color contrast between an o...

Colorful Binary Giant K Type

8.1 Great

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NML Cygni

A red hypergiant in Cygnus and one of the largest and most luminous stars known, with a radius estimated to exceed 1,600...

Massive Cygnus M Type Red Hypergiant

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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KELT-9

A hot A-type star ~670 light-years away in Cygnus, hosting KELT-9b, the hottest known hot Jupiter exoplanet, whose daysi...

Cygnus Main Sequence A Type Exoplanet Host

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