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Alcor
Alcor is a white main sequence star of spectral type A5V located approximately 81 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. With an apparent visual magnitude near 4.0, it forms a close naked-eye visual pair with Mizar in the handle of the Big Dipper. The two stars were historically used as a vision test across multiple cultures. Though once thought to be unrelated, Alcor and Mizar ap...
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Sirius
Seen in Canis Major, Sirius is the brightest star in Earth's night sky by apparent brightness. That distinction concerns how bright it looks from Earth, rather than how much light it produces compared with every other star. The system contains Sirius A, a white A-type main-sequence star, and Sirius B, a much smaller white dwarf that is difficult to distinguish beside its brilliant companion.
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