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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 ...
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
R136c is a star located in R136, a tight knot of stars at the centre of NGC 2070, an open cluster weighing 450,000 solar masses and containing 10,000 stars. [5] At 142 M ā and 3.8 million L ā, it is the one of the most massive stars known and one of the most luminous, along with being one of the hottest, at over 40,000 K.
The most luminous known asymptotic giant branch star. [20] Widely recognised as being among the largest known stars. [21] NML Cygni < 1,350 +195 −229 [c] AD Surrounding dusty region is very complex making the radius hard to determine. [22] Stephenson 2 DFK 2 1,300 ± 300 [12] L/T eff: Another red supergiant, Stephenson 2 DFK 1 has an ...
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.
Zeta Puppis (ζ Puppis, abbreviated Zeta Pup, ζ Pup), formally named Naos / n aŹ s /, [10] is the brightest star in the constellation of Puppis. The spectral class of O4 means this is one of the hottest, and most luminous, stars visible to the naked eye. It is one of the sky's few naked-eye class O-type stars as well as one of the closest to ...
Pistol Star (once thought to be the most luminous star in the galaxy) LBV 1806-20 (one of the most luminous stars known) Sanduleak -69° 202 (the star that exploded as SN 1987A) Cygnus OB2-12 (blue hypergiant and one of the most luminous stars known) HD 80077 (blue hypergiant) V1429 Aquilae (with a supergiant companion, very similar to a less ...
AG Carinae (AG Car) is a star in the constellation of Carina.It is classified as a luminous blue variable (LBV) and is one of the most luminous stars in the Milky Way.The great distance (20,000 light-years) and intervening dust mean that the star is not usually visible to the naked eye; its apparent brightness varies erratically between magnitude 5.7 and 9.0.