Lists of stars facts for kids
The following are lists of stars. Stars are astronomical objects that spend some portion of their existence generating energy through thermonuclear fusion.
Contents
By location
- Lists of stars by constellation
By name
- List of proper names of stars
- List of Arabic star names
- Chinese star names
- Nakshatra
- Stars named after people
By proximity
- 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
- List of brightest stars
- 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
By variability or other factor
- List of brown dwarfs
- List of collapsars (black holes)
- List of notable variable stars
- List of semiregular variable stars
- List of stars that have unusual dimming periods
- List of stars with multiplanetary systems
- List of supernova candidates
- List of white dwarfs
- List of red dwarfs
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
- List of supernovae
- Solar twins (Solar analogs)
- Stars and planetary systems in fiction
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.
- HR 465 — chemically peculiar variable star
- MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1 (or Icarus) — second most distant star, 9 billion light years away.
- 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
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