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Eta Carinae is an exceptionally large and volatile star located within the Carina Nebula. It’s notable for its dramatic past eruptions, including a significant outburst in the 1840s that reshaped its appearance. As a luminous blue variable, it exhibits intense fluctuations in brightness. Scientists...
A luminous blue variable in Cygnus that erupted around 1600 CE and is the namesake of the P Cygni spectral line profile, a signature of strong stellar winds.
Theta1 Orionis C is the most massive and luminous member of the Trapezium cluster in the Orion Nebula, an O-type star responsible for ionizing most of the surrounding nebula.
A luminous blue hypergiant near the Galactic Center and among the most luminous stars in the Milky Way, revealed in the 1990s through infrared imaging.
Gamma Velorum is the brightest Wolf-Rayet star visible to the naked eye, a multiple-star system in Vela containing a WC8-type component about 1,100 light-years away.
A red hypergiant in Cygnus and one of the largest and most luminous stars known, with a radius estimated to exceed 1,600 solar radii.
A luminous blue variable in Carina, one of the most massive and luminous stars in the Milky Way, surrounded by an ejected circumstellar nebula.
Stephenson 2-18 is a red supergiant in the open cluster Stephenson 2, often cited as potentially the largest known star with a radius estimated around 2,150 solar radii.
The Peony Star (WR 102ka) is a Wolf-Rayet star near the Galactic center and a contender for the most luminous star in the Milky Way, with luminosity estimated near 3.2 million solar.
LBV 1806-20 is a luminous blue variable near the Galactic center, located in the same dense star-forming cluster as a soft gamma repeater and among the most luminous stars known.
V354 Cephei is a red supergiant in Cepheus considered among the largest stars known, with a radius estimated at roughly 1,500 times that of the Sun.
The W3 star-forming complex is an active region of massive star formation in the Milky Way's Perseus Arm associated with the IC 1795 nebula.
W51 is one of the largest and most active star-forming regions in the Milky Way galaxy, distinguished by its vast concentration of newly formed stars and complex molecular clouds.
