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WR 24 (HD 93131) is a Wolf-Rayet star in the constellation Carina. It is one of the most luminous stars known . At the edge of naked eye visibility it is also one of the brightest Wolf Rayet stars in the sky.
HD 140283 (also known as the Methuselah star) is a metal-poor subgiant star about 200 light years away from the Earth in the constellation Libra, near the boundary with Ophiuchus in the Milky Way Galaxy. Its apparent magnitude is 7.205, so it can be seen with binoculars. It is one of the oldest stars known.
Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds.
HD 212771, also named Lionrock, is a solitary star in the southern zodiac constellation Aquarius. It has an apparent magnitude of 7.60, [2] making it readily visible with binoculars but not the naked eye. Parallax measurements place the object at a distance of 364 light years, [1] and is currently receding with a radial velocity of 15 km/s. [5]
41 Lyncis (abbreviated 41 Lyn), also designated HD 81688 and named Intercrus / ˈ ɪ n t ər k r ʌ s /, is a fifth-magnitude star located in the northern constellation of Ursa Major. An extrasolar planet (designated 41 Lyncis b or HD 81688 b, later named Arkas) is thought to be orbiting the star.
HD 63433 d (TOI-1726 d) is a confirmed exoplanet orbiting HD 63433, a Sun-like star located 73 light-years away in the constellation Gemini. [3] Its radius is measured at around 1.1 R 🜨 , which makes it similar to the Earth in size. [ 1 ]
HD 172051 (86 G. Sagittarii) is a single, [10] yellow-hued star in the southern constellation of Sagittarius. The star is barely bright enough to be seen with the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 5.85. [2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 76.64 mas, it is located some 43 light years from the Sun.
The spectrum of HD 181720 presents as an ordinary G-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of G1V. [3] It is an older star with an estimated age of roughly 12 billion years [5] and a minimal level of magnetic activity in its chromosphere. [3] The star has 87% of the mass of the Sun but the radius is now 42% larger than the Sun's. [5]