Lists of stars
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Template:Short description The following are lists of stars. Stars are astronomical objects that spend some portion of their existence generating energy through thermonuclear fusion.
By location
By name
- List of proper names of stars
- List of Arabic star names
- Chinese star names
- Nakshatra
- Stars named after people
By distance
Nearest stars
- List of nearest stars (up to 20 light-years)
- List of nearest stars by spectral type
- List of nearest bright stars
by Luminosity
20–100 light years away
- 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 star systems within 80–85 light-years
- List of star systems within 85–90 light-years
- List of star systems within 90–95 light-years
- List of star systems within 95–100 light-years
100–500 light-years away
- List of star systems within 100–150 light-years
- List of star systems within 150–200 light-years
- List of star systems within 200–250 light-years
- List of star systems within 250–300 light-years
- List of star systems within 300–350 light-years
- List of star systems within 350–400 light-years
- List of star systems within 400–450 light-years
- List of star systems within 450–500 light-years
By physical characteristic
- List of brightest stars
- List of brightest stars by year
- List of most luminous stars
- List of most massive stars
- List of largest known stars
- List of smallest known stars
- List of oldest stars
- List of least massive stars
- List of hottest stars
- List of coolest stars
By spectral type or HR class
- List of Wolf-Rayet stars
- List of luminous blue variable stars
- List of O-type stars
- List of brown dwarfs
- List of white dwarfs
- List of red dwarfs
By variability
- List of notable variable stars
- List of semiregular variable stars
- List of stars that have unusual dimming periods
By other factors
- List of brightest stars
- List of high-proper-motion stars
- List of stars with multiplanetary systems
- List of blue straggler stars
- List of collapsars (black holes)
- List of supernovae
By Astronomical Catalog
- Table of stars with Bayer designations
- Table of stars with Flamsteed designations
- List of stars in the New General Catalogue
Other star listings
- 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
- Solar twins (Solar analogs)
Other 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
- EBLM J0555-57Ab — is one of the smallest stars ever discovered.
- GY Andromedae — 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
- Lists of astronomical objects
- Astronomical naming conventions
- Star
- Star catalogue
- Sun
- Timeline of knowledge about galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and large-scale structure
- Timeline of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and supernovae
- Exoplanet
- Lists of planets
- Lists of exoplanets
References
- 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
External links
- Stellar Catalog [1]
- International Astronomical Union: IAU
- Sol Station — information on nearby and bright stars.
Template:Star Template:Nearest star systems Template:Portal bar Template:List of lists