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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
List of star systems within 95–100 light-years. List of luminous blue variable stars. List of O-type stars. List of star systems within 100–150 light-years. List of Wolf-Rayet stars. List of star systems within 150–200 light-years. List of star systems within 200–250 light-years.
Lists of astronomical objects. Selection of astronomical bodies and objects: Moon Mimas and Ida, an asteroid with its own moon, Dactyl. Comet Lovejoy and Jupiter, a giant gas planet. The Sun; Sirius A with Sirius B, a white dwarf; the Crab Nebula, a remnant supernova. A black hole (artist concept); Vela Pulsar, a rotating neutron star.
The following well-known stars are listed for the purpose of comparison. Antares (α Scorpii A) 680 [71] AD Fourteenth brightest star in the night sky. [72] Widely recognised as being among the largest known stars. [26] Betelgeuse (α Orionis) 640, [73] 764 +116 −62, [74] 782 ± 55 [75] AD & SEIS Tenth brightest star in the night sky. [72]
Aldebaran (α Tau, α Tauri, Alpha Tauri) is a red giant star located about 65 light years away in the zodiac constellation of Taurus. With an average apparent magnitude of 0.87 it is the brightest star in the constellation and is one of the brightest stars in the nighttime sky. The name Aldebaran is Arabic (الدبران al-dabarān) and ...
Lists of galaxies. Look up galaxy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A galaxy is a system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, dark matter, bound together by gravity. The word is derived from the Greek galaxias, literally 'milky', a reference to the Milky Way galaxy that contains the Solar System.
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.
The most luminous known star. Quyllur: 2.1878 [5] 5,540 2023 First red supergiant at cosmological distances. Mothra: 2.091 [6] 5,400 2023 A binary consisting of a yellow supergiant or yellow hypergiant and a Blue supergiant. MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1: 1.49 [7] 4,410 2018 The most distant known star prior to the discovery of Earendel. Warhol 0.94 ...