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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
These names of stars that have either been approved by the International Astronomical Union or which have been in somewhat recent use. IAU approval comes mostly from its Working Group on Star Names, which has been publishing a "List of IAU-approved Star Names" since 2016. As of April 2022, the list included a total of 451 proper names of stars.
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
An asteroid in our solar system will temporarily block the light of Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, Monday evening and early Tuesday morning.
When looking at the sky, Venus is always east before sunrise and west after sunset. While Venus and the crescent moon will be closest on December 4, they will still catch your eye on the evenings ...
It is the 2nd/3rd nearest individual star to the Solar System, and the fourth-brightest individual star in the night sky. Tau Ceti: 11.912 ...
On May 10, Florida residents were treated to the spectacular sight of the northern lights, compliments of strong solar flares. See what you missed.
At magnitude 1.5, it is the second-brightest star in Canis Major and the 23rd-brightest star in the sky. It is a blue-white supergiant of spectral type B2Iab, around 404 light-years from Earth. [39] This star is one of the brightest known extreme ultraviolet sources in the sky. [40] It is a binary star; the secondary is of magnitude 7.4.