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The stars with the most confirmed planets are the Sun (the Solar System's star) and Kepler-90, with 8 confirmed planets each, followed by TRAPPIST-1 with 7 planets. The 1,033 multiplanetary systems are listed below according to the star's distance from Earth. Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System, has three planets (b, c and d).
A multiple star system consists of two or more stars that appear from Earth to be close to one another in the sky. [dubious – discuss] This may result from the stars actually being physically close and gravitationally bound to each other, in which case it is a physical multiple star, or this closeness may be merely apparent, in which case it is an optical multiple star [a] Physical multiple ...
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
This category contains articles about star systems, which are groups of two or more gravitationally-bound stars in a region usually smaller than one light-year. Star clusters (groups of many more stars that occupy a much larger region) are listed in Category:Star clusters.
The closest system is Alpha Centauri, with Proxima Centauri as the closest star in that system, at 4.2465 light-years from Earth. The brightest, most massive and most luminous object among those 131 is Sirius A , which is also the brightest star in Earth's night sky ; its white dwarf companion Sirius B is the hottest object among them.
Optical companions (stars that appear to be close together but are physically unrelated) do not count. Star systems placed here should be categorized by their number of components. Trinary star systems are listed under Category:Triple star systems, while binary stars are listed under Category:Binary stars
This is a list of star systems within 400–450 light years of Earth. [1] [2] [3] This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (July 2024)
This is a list of star systems within 300–350 light years of Earth. [1] [2] [3] This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (July 2024)