The following are lists of stars. These are

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that spend some portion of their existence generating energy through

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By location

Lists of stars by constellation All stars but one can be associated with an IAU constellation. IAU constellations are areas of the sky. Although there are only 88 IAU constellations, the sky is actually divided into 89 irregularly shaped boxes as the constellation Serpens is spl ...

By name

List of traditional star names 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-approve ...

List of Arabic star names This is a list of Arabic star names. In Western astronomy, most of the accepted star names are Arabic, a few are Greek and some are of unknown origin. Typically only bright stars have names. History of Arabic star names Very old star names origi ...

* List of Chinese star names *

Stars named after people Over the past few centuries, a small number of stars have been named after individual people. It is common in astronomy for objects to be given names, in accordance with accepted astronomical naming conventions. Most stars have not been given Prope ...

By proximity

List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs This list covers all known stars, brown dwarfs, and sub-brown dwarfs within of the Sun. So far, 131 such objects have been found, of which only 22 are bright enough to be visible without a telescope. The visible light needs to reach or exce ...

(up to 20 light-years) * List of star systems within 20–25 light-years *

List of star systems within 25–30 light-years This is a list of star systems within 25–30 light-years of Earth. See also * List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs * List of star systems within 20–25 light-years * List of star systems within 30-35 light-years * Lists of stars * List of ...

* List of star systems within 30–35 light-years * List of star systems within 35–40 light-years * List of star systems within 40–45 light-years * List of star systems within 45–50 light-years * List of star systems within 50–55 light-years * List of star systems within 55–60 light-years * List of star systems within 60–65 light-years *

List of star systems within 65–70 light-years This is a list of star systems within 65-70 light years of Earth. See also *Lists of stars * List of star systems within 60-65 light-years * List of star systems within 70-75 light-years *List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs This list ...

* List of star systems within 70–75 light-years * List of star systems within 75–80 light-years *

List of nearest bright stars This list of nearest bright stars is a table of stars found within 15 parsecs (48.9 light-years) of the nearest star, the Sun, that have an absolute magnitude of +8.5 or brighter, which is approximately comparable to a listing of stars more lumi ...

List of brightest stars This is a list of stars arranged by their apparent magnitude – their brightness as observed from Earth. It includes all stars brighter than magnitude +2.50 in visible light, measured using a ''V''-band filter in the UBV photometric system. Sta ...

List of stars more luminous than any closer star This is a list of stars which are more luminous than any closer star, that is, stars which emit more radiation than any other star within the same distance of the Sun. The luminosities are measured in bolometric luminosity and not by visual lumin ...

By physical characteristic

List of most luminous stars This is a list of stars arranged by their absolute magnitude – their intrinsic stellar luminosity. This cannot be observed directly, so instead must be calculated from the apparent magnitude (the brightness as seen from Earth), the distance t ...

List of most massive stars This is a list of the most massive stars that have been discovered, in solar masses (). Uncertainties and caveats Most of the masses listed below are contested and, being the subject of current research, remain under review and subject to const ...

List of largest stars Below are lists of the largest stars currently known, ordered by radius and separated into categories by galaxy. The unit of measurement used is the radius of the Sun (approximately ). The angular diameters of stars can be measured directly us ...

List of smallest stars This is a list of stars which are the least voluminous known (the smallest stars by volume). List Notable small stars This is a list of small stars that are notable for characteristics that are not separately listed. Smallest stars by type ...

List of oldest stars The age of the oldest known stars approaches the age of the universe, about 13.8 billion years. Some of these are among the first stars from reionization (the stellar dawn), ending the Dark Ages about 370,000 years after Big Bang. Thes ...

List of least massive stars This is a list of brown dwarfs. These are objects that have masses between heavy gas giants and low-mass stars. The first isolated brown dwarf discovered was Teide 1 in 1995. The first brown dwarf discovered orbiting a star was Gliese 229 B, ...

List of hottest stars This is a list of hottest stars so far discovered (excluding degenerate stars), arranged by decreasing temperature. The stars with temperatures higher than 60,000 K are included. List See also *List of most massive stars *List of most lumino ...

By variability or other factor

List of brown dwarfs This is a list of brown dwarfs. These are objects that have masses between heavy gas giants and low-mass stars. The first isolated brown dwarf discovered was Teide 1 in 1995. The first brown dwarf discovered orbiting a star was Gliese 229 B, al ...

* List of collapsars (black holes) *

List of notable variable stars , there are over 52,011 known variable stars, with more being discovered regularly, so a complete list of every single variable is impossible at this place (cf. GCVS). The following is a list of variable stars that are well-known, bright, signif ...

List of semiregular variable stars This is a list of semiregular variable stars. Variability ranges are taken from the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) where these are visual magnitudes, otherwise from the International Variable Star Index (VSX). Spectral types are taken ...

List of stars that have unusual dimming periods This list of stars that have unusual dimming periods is a table of stars that have been observed to darken and brighten and don't appear to be eclipsing binaries or intrinsic variables. It's based on studies searching for analogs of Tabby's S ...

* List of stars with confirmed extrasolar planets *

List of supernova candidates This is a list of supernova candidates, or stars that astronomers have suggested are supernova progenitors. Type II supernova progenitors include stars with at least 10 solar masses that are in the final stages of their evolution. Prominent example ...

List of white dwarfs This is a list of exceptional white dwarf stars. Firsts These were the first white dwarfs discovered fitting these conditions Extremes These are the white dwarfs which are currently known to fit these conditions Nearest Notes *SDSS J1228+104 ...

* List of red dwarfs

Other star listings

* List of brightest stars and other record stars * List of extremes in the sky * List of hypothetical stars *

List of selected stars for navigation Fifty-seven navigational stars and additionally the star Polaris are given a special status in the field of celestial navigation. Of the approximately 6,000 stars visible to the naked eye under optimal conditions, these selected stars are am ...

List of star extremes 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 Ear ...

* List of stars with resolved images *

List of supernovae This is a list of supernovae that are of historical significance. These include supernovae that were observed prior to the availability of photography, and individual events that have been the subject of a scientific paper that contributed to supe ...

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s (Solar analogs) * Stars and planetary systems in fiction

Other stars

The following is a list of particularly notable actual or hypothetical

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s that have their own articles in Wikipedia, but are not included in the lists above. *

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Cygnus X-1 Cygnus X-1 (abbreviated Cyg X-1) is a galactic X-ray source in the constellation Cygnus and was the first such source widely accepted to be a black hole. It was discovered in 1964 during a rocket flight and is one of the ...

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source * EBLM J0555-57Ab — is one of the smallest stars ever discovered. * HR 465 — chemically-peculiar

variable star A variable star is a star whose brightness as seen from Earth (its apparent magnitude) changes with time. This variation may be caused by a change in emitted light or by something partly blocking the light, so variable stars are classified as ...

MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1 MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1, also known as Icarus,Other names include ''LS1'', ''MACS J1149 LS1'', ''MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1 (LS1)'' and ''MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1'' is a blue supergiant star observed through a gravitational lens. It is the ...

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Icarus In Greek mythology, Icarus (; grc, Ἴκαρος, Íkaros, ) was the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the architect of the labyrinth of Crete. After Theseus, king of Athens and enemy of Minos, escaped from the labyrinth, King Minos suspe ...

) — second most distant star, 9 billion light years away. *

P Cygni P Cygni (34 Cygni) is a variable star in the constellation Cygnus. The designation "P" was originally assigned by Johann Bayer in ''Uranometria'' as a nova. Located about 5,300 light-years (1,560 parsecs) from Earth, it is a hypergian ...

— suddenly brightened in the 17th century * WNC4 — Messier Object 40 * Zeta Boötis — speckle binary test system

References

*
The Bright Star Catalog
', Astronomical Data Center, NSSDC/ADC, 1991.
Astronomiches Rechen-Institut Heidelberg
— ARICNS Database for Nearby Stars

SIMBAD Astronomical Database
;Specific

External links

*International Astronomical Union
IAU

Sol Station
— information on nearby and bright stars. {{DEFAULTSORT:Stars, list of Light sources