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The following is a list of particularly notable actual or hypothetical stars that have their own articles in Wikipedia, but are not included in the lists above. BPM 37093 — a diamond star Cygnus X-1 — X-ray source
In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [2] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, [3] included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee ...
Lists of stars. List of nearest stars; List of brightest stars; List of hottest stars; List of nearest bright stars; List of most luminous stars; List of most massive stars; List of largest known stars; List of smallest stars; List of oldest stars; List of stars with proplyds; List of variable stars; List of semiregular variable stars; List of ...
Double star John Herschel: Pisces: 00 h 11 m: 03° 40′ 15 [5] NGC 44: Double Star John Herschel: Andromeda 00 h 13 m: 31° 18′ 14.6 [6] NGC 46: Star Edward Cooper: Pisces 00 h 21.9 m: 22° 25′ 11.8 [7] NGC 82: Star Guillaume Bigourdan: Andromeda 00 h 21 m 17.5 s: 22° 27′ 37″ 14.6 [8] NGC 156: Double Star Wilhelm Tempel: Cetus 00 h 35 ...
The Bright Star Catalogue, which is a star catalogue listing all stars of apparent magnitude 6.5 or brighter, or roughly every star visible to the naked eye from Earth, contains 9,096 stars. [1] The most voluminous modern catalogues list on the order of a billion stars, out of an estimated total of 200 to 400 billion in the Milky Way .
The following well-known stars are listed for the purpose of comparison. Antares (α Scorpii A) 680 [70] AD Fourteenth brightest star in the night sky. [71] Widely recognised as being among the largest known stars. [21] Betelgeuse (α Orionis) 640, [72] 764 +116 −62, [73] 782 ± 55 [74] AD & SEIS Tenth brightest star in the night sky. [71]
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Additionally, astronomers have found 6 white dwarfs (stars that have exhausted all fusible hydrogen), 21 brown dwarfs, as well as 1 sub-brown dwarf, WISE 0855−0714 (possibly a rogue planet). The closest system is Alpha Centauri , with Proxima Centauri as the closest star in that system, at 4.2465 light-years from Earth.