The following are lists of stars.
Star
A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma (physics), plasma held together by Self-gravitation, self-gravity. The List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs, nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night sk ...
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astronomical objects that spend some portion of their existence generating
energy
Energy () is the physical quantity, quantitative physical property, property that is transferred to a physical body, body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of Work (thermodynamics), work and in the form of heat and l ...
through
thermonuclear fusion
Nuclear fusion is a reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei combine to form a larger nuclei, nuclei/neutron by-products. The difference in mass between the reactants and products is manifested as either the release or absorption of ener ...
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By location
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Lists of stars by constellation
By name
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List of proper names of stars
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List of Arabic star names
This is a list of Arabic star names. In Western astronomy, most of the accepted star names are Arabic, a few are Greek language, Greek and some are of unknown origin. Typically only bright stars have names.
History of Arabic star names
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Chinese star names
Chinese star names ( Chinese: , ''xīng míng'') are named according to ancient Chinese astronomy and astrology. The sky is divided into star mansions (, ''xīng xiù'', also translated as "lodges") and asterisms (, ''xīng guān''). The ecliptic ...
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Nakshatra
Nakshatra () is the term for Lunar mansion in Hindu astrology and Buddhist astrology. A nakshatra is one of 27 (sometimes also 28) sectors along the ecliptic. Their names are related to a prominent star or asterisms in or near the respective s ...
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Stars named after people
By distance
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List of most distant stars
Nearest stars
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List of nearest stars
This list covers all known stars, white dwarfs, brown dwarfs, and sub-brown dwarfs within of the Sun. So far, 131 such objects have been found. Only List of nearest bright stars, 22 are bright enough to be visible without a telescope, for whi ...
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List of nearest stars by spectral type
Below there are lists the nearest stars separated by spectral type. The scope of the list is still restricted to the main sequence spectral types: M-type star, M, K-type star, K, F-type star, F, G-type star, G, A-type star, A, B-type star, B and O- ...
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List of nearest bright stars
The following nearest bright stars are found within of the closest star, the Sun, and have an absolute magnitude of +8.5 or brighter, which is approximately comparable to a listing of stars more luminous than a red dwarf. Right ascension and ...
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List of nearest giant stars
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List of nearest supergiants
20–100 light years away
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List of star systems within 20–25 light-years
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List of star systems within 25–30 light-years
This is a list of star systems within 25–30 light-years of Earth. List
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* List of nearest stars
* List of star systems within 20–25 light-years
* List of star systems within 30–35 light-years
* Lists of stars
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List of star systems within 30–35 light-years
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List of star systems within 35–40 light-years
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List of star systems within 40–45 light-years
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List of star systems within 45–50 light-years
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List of star systems within 50–55 light-years
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List of star systems within 55–60 light-years
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List of star systems within 60–65 light-years
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List of star systems within 65–70 light-years
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List of star systems within 70–75 light-years
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List of star systems within 75–80 light-years
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List of star systems within 80–85 light-years
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List of star systems within 85–90 light-years
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List of star systems within 90–95 light-years
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List of star systems within 95–100 light-years
100–500 light-years away
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List of star systems within 100–150 light-years
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List of star systems within 150–200 light-years
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List of star systems within 200–250 light-years
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List of star systems within 250–300 light-years
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List of star systems within 300–350 light-years
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List of star systems within 350–400 light-years
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List of star systems within 400–450 light-years
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List of star systems within 450–500 light-years
By physical characteristic
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List of brightest stars
This is a list of stars arranged by their apparent magnitude – their brightness as observed from Earth. It includes all stars brighter than magnitude +2.50 in visible light, measured using a ''V''-band filter in the UBV photometric system. St ...
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List of brightest stars by year
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List of most luminous stars
This is a list of stars arranged by their absolute magnitude – their intrinsic stellar luminosity. This cannot be observed directly, so instead must be calculated from the apparent magnitude (the brightness as seen from Earth), the distanc ...
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List of most massive stars
This is a list of the most massive stars that have been discovered, in solar mass units ().
Uncertainties and caveats
Most of the masses listed below are contested and, being the subject of current research, remain under review and subject to con ...
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List of largest known stars
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List of smallest known stars
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List of oldest stars
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List of least massive stars
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List of hottest stars
By spectral type or HR class
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List of Wolf-Rayet stars
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List of luminous blue variable stars
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List of O-type stars
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List of brown dwarfs
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, bu ...
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List of white dwarfs
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List of red dwarfs
By variability
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List of notable variable stars
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List of semiregular variable stars
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List of stars that have unusual dimming periods
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...
By other factors
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List of brightest stars
This is a list of stars arranged by their apparent magnitude – their brightness as observed from Earth. It includes all stars brighter than magnitude +2.50 in visible light, measured using a ''V''-band filter in the UBV photometric system. St ...
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List of high-proper-motion stars
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List of stars with multiplanetary systems
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List of blue straggler stars
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List of collapsars (black holes)
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List of supernovae
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List of supernova candidates
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List of supernova remnants
By Astronomical Catalog
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Table of stars with Bayer designations
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Table of stars with Flamsteed designations
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List of Gliese & GJ Objects
Other star listings
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List of extremes in the sky
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List of hypothetical stars
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List of selected stars for navigation
Fifty-seven navigational stars and additionally the star Polaris are given a special status in the field of celestial navigation. Of the approximately six thousand stars visible to the naked eye under optimal conditions, these selected stars are ...
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List of star extremes
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List of stars with resolved images
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Solar twins (Solar analogs)
Other stars
The following is a list of particularly notable actual or hypothetical
star
A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma (physics), plasma held together by Self-gravitation, self-gravity. The List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs, nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night sk ...
s that have their own articles in Wikipedia, but are not included in the lists above.
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BPM 37093 — a
diamond
Diamond is a Allotropes of carbon, solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Diamond is tasteless, odourless, strong, brittle solid, colourless in pure form, a poor conductor of e ...
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Cygnus X-1 —
X-ray
An X-ray (also known in many languages as Röntgen radiation) is a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than those of ultraviolet rays and longer than those of gamma rays. Roughly, X-rays have a wavelength ran ...
source
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EBLM J0555-57Ab — is one of the smallest stars ever discovered.
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GY Andromedae —
chemically peculiar variable star
A variable star is a star whose brightness as seen from Earth (its apparent magnitude) changes systematically with time. This variation may be caused by a change in emitted light or by something partly blocking the light, so variable stars are ...
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MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1 (or
Icarus
In Greek mythology, Icarus (; , ) was the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the architect of the labyrinth of Crete. After Theseus, king of Athens and enemy of King Minos, escaped from the labyrinth, Minos suspected that Icarus and Daedalu ...
) — second most distant star, 9 billion light years away.
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P Cygni — suddenly brightened in the 17th century
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WNC4 — Messier Object 40
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Zeta Boötis —
speckle binary test system
See also
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Lists of astronomical objects
This is a list of lists, grouped by type of astronomical object.
Solar System
* List of Solar System objects
* List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System
* List of Solar System objects most distant from the Sun
* List of ...
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Astronomical naming conventions
In ancient times, only the Sun and Moon, a few stars, and the most easily visible planets had names. Over the last few hundred years, the number of identified astronomical objects has risen from hundreds to over a billion, and more are discovered ...
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Star
A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma (physics), plasma held together by Self-gravitation, self-gravity. The List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs, nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night sk ...
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Star catalogue
A star catalogue is an astronomical catalogue that lists stars. In astronomy, many stars are referred to simply by catalogue numbers. There are a great many different star catalogues which have been produced for different purposes over the year ...
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Sun
The Sun is the star at the centre of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light a ...
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Timeline of knowledge about galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and large-scale structure
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Timeline of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and supernovae
References
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The Bright Star Catalog', Astronomical Data Center, NSSDC/ADC, 1991.
Astronomiches Rechen-Institut Heidelberg— ARICNS Database for Nearby Stars
SIMBAD Astronomical Database
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External links
*Stellar Catalo
*International Astronomical Union
IAUSol Station— information on nearby and bright stars.
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