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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 ...
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.
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
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 ...
LBV 1806−20 is a candidate luminous blue variable (LBV) and likely binary star located around 28,000 light-years (8,700 pc) from the Sun, towards the center of the Milky Way. It has an estimated mass of around 36 solar masses and an estimated variable luminosity of around two million times that of the Sun.
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
in Triangulum Galaxy; luminous blue variable; one of the most luminous stars known: Var 2: Y: 01 h 34 m 18.4 s +30° 38′ 27″ 3000000: Ofpe/WN9: in Triangulum Galaxy; luminous blue variable; one of the most luminous stars known: LSPM J0207+3331: 02 h 07 m 33.81 s +33° 31′ 29.53″ 145: DA: oldest white dwarf to host a circumstellar disk ...
V4650 Sgr is calculated to be one of the most luminous stars known, at 1,700,000 L ☉ to 7,943,000 L ☉. It is considered to be a bona-fide luminous blue variable, although it has not been observed to change temperature from the S Doradus minimum strip to a cooler outburst state. [8] The infrared brightness has varied between magnitude 7.0 ...