The following are lists of stars. Stars are astronomical objects that spend some portion of their existence generating energy through thermonuclear fusion.
By location edit
By name edit
By proximity edit
- List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs (up to 20 light-years)
- List of star systems within 20–25 light-years
- List of star systems within 25–30 light-years
- 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
- List of star systems within 70–75 light-years
- List of star systems within 75–80 light-years
- List of nearest bright stars
- List of brightest stars
- List of nearest giant stars
- List of nearest supergiants
By physical characteristic edit
By variability or other factor edit
Other star listings edit
- List of extremes in the sky
- List of hypothetical stars
- List of selected stars for navigation
- List of star extremes
- List of stars with resolved images
- List of supernovae
- Solar twins (Solar analogs)
- Stars and planetary systems in fiction
Other stars edit
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
- EBLM J0555-57Ab — is one of the smallest stars ever discovered.
- HR 465 — chemically peculiar variable star
- MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1 (or Icarus) — second most distant star, 9 billion light years away.[1][2]
- P Cygni — suddenly brightened in the 17th century
- WNC4 — Messier Object 40
- Zeta Boötis — speckle binary test system
See also edit
References edit
- The Bright Star Catalog, Astronomical Data Center, NSSDC/ADC, 1991.
- Astronomiches Rechen-Institut Heidelberg — ARICNS Database for Nearby Stars
- Northern Arizona University database of nearby stars
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database
- Specific
- ^ Kelly, Patrick L.; et al. (2 April 2018). "Extreme magnification of an individual star at redshift 1.5 by a galaxy-cluster lens". Nature. 2 (4): 334–342. arXiv:1706.10279. Bibcode:2018NatAs...2..334K. doi:10.1038/s41550-018-0430-3. S2CID 256703331.
- ^ Howell, Elizabeth (2 April 2018). "Rare Cosmic Alignment Reveals Most Distant Star Ever Seen". Space.com. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
External links edit
- International Astronomical Union: IAU
- Sol Station — information on nearby and bright stars.