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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
These names of stars that have either been approved by the International Astronomical Union or which have been in somewhat recent use. IAU approval comes mostly from its Working Group on Star Names, which has been publishing a "List of IAU-approved Star Names" since 2016. As of April 2022, the list included a total of 451 proper names of stars. [1]
The following is a list of stars with resolved images, that is, stars whose images have been resolved beyond a point source. Aside from the Sun , observed from Earth , stars are exceedingly small in apparent size, requiring the use of special high-resolution equipment and techniques to image.
Star name Star mean radius, kilometres Star class Notes References SGR 1935+2154: 4.35 soft gamma repeater [1] RX J0720.4−3125: 4.50 +0.08 −0.09 – 5.38 +0.13 −0.14: Neutron star: Neutron stars are stellar remnants produced when a star of around 8–9 solar masses or more explodes in a supernova at the end of its life.
S. List of star systems within 20–25 light-years; List of star systems within 25–30 light-years; List of star systems within 30–35 light-years
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 ...
In astronomy, star names, in contrast to star designations, are proper names of stars that have emerged from usage in pre-modern astronomical traditions. Lists of these names appear in the following articles: List of Arabic star names; List of Chinese star names; List of proper names of stars: traditional proper names in modern usage around ...
List of the largest known stars in Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies Star name Solar radii (Sun = 1) Galaxy Method [a] Notes Theoretical limit of star size (Andromeda Galaxy) ≳1,750 [11] L/T eff: Estimated by measuring the fraction of red supergiants at higher luminosities in a large sample of stars. Assumes an effective temperature of 3,625 K.