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2. List of most luminous stars - Wikipedia

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   The last stars in the list are familiar nearby stars put there for comparison, and not among the most luminous known. It may also interest the reader to know that the Sun is more luminous than approximately 95% of all known stars in the local neighbourhood (out to, say, a few hundred light years), due to enormous numbers of somewhat less ...

3. List of brightest natural objects in the sky - Wikipedia

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   Brightest night star −0.74 Canopus: Star −0.29 [7] Alpha Centauri AB Binary star system Part of a triple star system with Proxima Centauri: −0.05 Arcturus: Star Brightest Population II star 0.03 −0.02 Vega: Star 0.08 0.03 [8] Capella: Quadruple star system: Brightest quadruple star system 0.13 0.05 [9] Rigel: Quadruple star system 0.13 ...

4. List of brightest stars - Wikipedia

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   Most stars on this list appear bright from Earth because they are nearby, not because they are intrinsically luminous. For a list which compensates for the distances, converting the apparent magnitude to the absolute magnitude, see the list of most luminous stars. Some major asterisms, which feature many of the brightest stars in the night sky

5. Historical brightest stars - Wikipedia

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   Sirius is currently the brightest star in Earth's night sky, but it has not always been so. Canopus has persistently been the brightest star over the ages; other stars appear brighter only during relatively temporary periods, during which they are passing the Solar System at a much closer distance than Canopus .

6. List of star extremes - Wikipedia

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   A star is a massive luminous spheroid astronomical object made of plasma that is held together by its own gravity.Stars exhibit great diversity in their properties (such as mass, volume, velocity, stage in stellar evolution, and distance from Earth) and some of the outliers are so disproportionate in comparison with the general population that they are considered extreme.

7. List of luminous blue variable stars - Wikipedia

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   Star system Nebula Median distance Stars in system Spectral type Apparent magnitude (V) Comments and references P Cygni (34 Cygni) 5251±180: 1: B1-2 Ia-0ep: 4.82: The closest luminous blue variable star to Earth V4029 Sagittarii (HD 168607) 6,000 1 B9Ia + 8.12 to 8.29 [4] [5] near the Omega Nebula: V905 Scorpii (HD 160529) 6,100 1 LBV 6.66 [4] [5]

8. R136c - Wikipedia

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   R136c is a Wolf–Rayet star of the spectral type WN5h and with a temperature of 42,170 K, making it one of hottest stars known. It is the one of the most massive stars known, with a mass of 142 M ☉, and it is one of the most luminous stars known, with a luminosity of 3.8 million L ☉.

9. Luminous blue variable - Wikipedia

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   Many luminous blue variables also show small amplitude variability with periods less than a year, which appears typical of Alpha Cygni variables, [7] and stochastic (i.e. totally random) variations. [8] Luminous blue variables are by definition more luminous than most stars and also more massive, but within a very wide range.