Best Carinae

Canopus is a massive, white-yellow supergiant star located in the Carina constellation. It’s notable for being the second brightest celestial object visible from Earth. Historically, navigators utilized Canopus as a key navigational reference point, particularly for spacecraft due to its consistent...

HD 93129A is one of the most massive and luminous O-type stars known, located in the Carina Nebula region and estimated to exceed 100 solar masses.

A luminous blue variable in Carina, one of the most massive and luminous stars in the Milky Way, surrounded by an ejected circumstellar nebula.

Miaplacidus is the second-brightest star in Carina, a blue-white giant about 113 light-years away and one of the brighter stars in the southern sky.

Epsilon Carinae, a bright binary system in the southern constellation Carina roughly 630 light-years away, included among the 58 standard navigational stars.

Iota Carinae, a yellow-white supergiant in Carina forming part of the False Cross asterism, whose IAU-approved name Aspidiske derives from the Greek for 'small shield'.