What is the brightest star in the sky?
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The brightest star as seen from the Earth is Sirius, not the sun, whose scientific name is Helios, nor the North Star, whose name is Polaris.  Sirius is located in the constellation Canis Major.  It is also known as the Dog Star.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius
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None, they up in the Sky, best seen at night. The Earth does revolve around a Big Star that can actually be seen in the day and not night. Make for a good Word Play/Riddle question. ;-D
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here you go:\n\nhttp://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/stars/startypes.shtml\n\nFrom your list it would be nova, but that is for a (relatively) short period of time.
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Good.  It's always fun seeing bright meteors (meteors are the streak you see in the sky;  a meteorite is the term used for such an object that survives it's plunge into the atmosphere and strikes the ground; a meteoroid is the same object still in open space).  Quite likely what you saw was one of the Orionids, especially if it seemed to eminate from the constellation Orion.  Those particular meteors are very fast and can be very bright.  The Orionids were pretty spectacular this year...I saw 5 of them in about 10 minutes during the peak.
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The best way to compare other stars to the sun is to talk in terms of\n\nTheir size: how many solar diameters are they?\nTheir mass: how many solar masses are they?\nTheir brightness: how does their luminosity compare to the sun = 1?\n\nMorgan-Keenan spectral classification\nThis stellar classification is the most commonly used. The common classes are normally listed from hottest to coldest (with mass, radius and luminosity compared to the Sun) and are: \n\nClass Temperature Star colour Mass Radius Luminosity \nO 30,000 - 60,000 K Bluish ("blue") 60 15 1,400,000 \nB 10,000 - 30,000 K Bluish-white ("blue-white") 18 7 20,000 \nA 7,500 - 10,000 K White with bluish tinge ("white") 3.2 2.5 80 \nF 6,000 - 7,500 K White ("yellow-white") 1.7 1.3 6 \nG 5,000 - 6,000 K Light yellow ("yellow") 1.1 1.1 1.2 \nK 3,500 - 5,000 K Light orange ("orange") 0.8 0.9 0.4 \nM 2,000 - 3,500 K Reddish orange ("red") 0.3 0.4 0.04 \n\nThese classes are further subdivided by Arabic numerals (0-9). A0 denotes the hottest stars in the A class and A9 denotes the coolest ones. The sun is classified as G2.\n\nSpectral types\n\nClass O\nClass O stars are very hot and very luminous, being bluish in colour; in fact, most of their output is in the ultraviolet range. These are the rarest of all main sequence stars, constituting as few as 1 in 32,000. O-stars shine with a power over a million times our Sun's output. \n\nExamples: Zeta Puppis, Epsilon Orionis \n\nClass B\nClass B stars are extremely luminous and blue. As O and B stars are so powerful, they live for a very short time. They constitute about 0.13% of main sequence stars -- rare, but much more common than those of class O.(\n\nExamples: Rigel, Spica \n\nClass A\nClass A stars are amongst the more common naked eye stars. As with all class A stars, they are white or bluish-white. They comprise perhaps 0.63% of all main sequence stars.\n\nExamples: Vega, Sirius \n\nClass F\nClass F stars are still quite powerful but they tend to be main sequence stars. Their colour is white with a slight tinge of yellow. These represent 3.1% of all main sequence stars.\n\nExamples: Canopus, Procyon \n\nClass G\nClass G stars are probably the best known, if only for the reason that our Sun is of this class. Supergiant stars often swing between O or B (blue) and K or M (red). While they do this, they do not stay for long in the G classification as this is an extremely unstable place for a supergiant to be. These are about 8% of all main sequence stars. \n\nExamples: Sun, Capella \n\nClass K\nClass K are orangish stars which are slightly cooler than our Sun. Some K stars are giants and supergiants, such as Arcturus while others like Alpha Centauri B are main sequence stars.  These make up some 13% of main sequence stars.\n\nExamples: Arcturus, Aldebaran \n\nClass M\nClass M is by far the most common class if we go by the number of stars. All the red dwarfs go in here and they are plentiful; over 78% of stars are red dwarfs, such as Proxima Centauri. M is also host to most giants and some supergiants such as Antares and Betelgeuse, as well as Mira variables. \n\nThe red color is deceptive; it is because of the dimness of the star. When an equally hot object, a halogen lamp (3000 K) which is white hot is put at a few kilometers distance, it appears like a red star.\n\nExamples: Betelgeuse, Barnard's star \n\nSpectral types for rare stars\nA number of new spectral types have been taken into use for rare types of stars, as they have been discovered:\n\nW: Up to 70,000 K - Wolf-Rayet stars. \nL: 1,500 - 2,000 K - Stars with masses insufficient to run the regular hydrogen fusion process (brown dwarfs). Class L stars contain lithium which is rapidly destroyed in hotter stars. \nT: 1,000 K - Cooler brown dwarfs with methane in the spectrum. \nC: Carbon stars. \nR: Formerly a class on its own representing the carbon star equivalent of Class K stars, e.g. S C
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sounds like it could have been sirius, in the constellation canis major. this is the brightest star in the northern hemisphere.
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It depends on where you live. But most reported "star" is Venus, a very bright yellow/white blob on the sky setting or rising a few hours after or before the Sun. It has two old names "Evening star" and "Morning star" refering to it setting just after the Sun sets, or rising just before the Sun rises.
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If you mean the bright object sometimes near the moon when it's low in the sky around sunset or sunrise, it's Venus, otherwise known as the morning star or evening star. Three ways to verify that it is Venus: \n1. After the Sun and moon, it's the next brightest natural object in the sky.\n2. It's never seen more than a couple of hours after sunset in the western sky or before sunrise in the eastern sky, though it's bright enough to sometimes be visible just before sunset or just after sunrise.\n3. With good binoculars resting on something solid (to prevent vibration) you can sometimes make out a disk (or some part of it, depending on phase). Venus is the only planet whose disk can be seen without a telescope.
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pink of the evening sky
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The North Star (Polaris) is at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper. The two stars at the end of the Big Dipper's bowl point to it.\n\nMost of the other stars of the Little Dipper are fairly dim, so you could have trouble making it out unless you're well away from urban light pollution. Polaris itself is almost as bright as the brightest stars in the Big Dipper, and should be easy to see. So you're probably just not looking in the right place.
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Midnight 'till about 2a ET.  Find a spot where there are no lights in your eyes and stare at the sky.  I hope you see some shooting stars.  Make a wish if you do...
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Alpha Centauri is the brightest star system (a triple star system) in the southern constellation of Centaurus, and contains the fourth brightest star in the night sky. It is the closet star system beyond our own at a distance of anywhere between 4.2 and 4.4 light years.
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Right now it's Venus. Try skyandtelescope.com for questions like that.
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Sirius (the Dog Star)\n\nList of the 100 Brightest stars:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_brightest_stars
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check this site...\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/stars/index.shtml
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if i am not mistaken, tres marias/tatlong maria, are the three bright bluish stars namely, Alnitak, Alniham and Mintaka, comprising the belt of the constellation Orion. they are just three of the seven stars of the Mighty Hunter of mythology (Orion). you from the philippines? if then, and if weather permits, you can see it tonight at almost overhead, slightly to the west.
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yes,A star in a cluster near the center of our Milky Way galaxy may be the largest and brightest ever found. Called LBV 1806-20, its five to 40 million times brighter than the Sun, at least 150 times as massive, and about 200 times wider.So i think it'd suit the query.