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• Stars and planetary systems in fiction — The planetary systems of stars other than the Sun and the Solar System are a staple element in much science fiction. Contents 1 Overview 1.1 The brightest stars …   Wikipedia

• Type Ia supernova — A Type Ia supernova is a sub category of cataclysmic variable stars that results from the violent explosion of a white dwarf star. A white dwarf is the remnant of a star that has completed its normal life cycle and has ceased nuclear fusion.… …   Wikipedia

• Type II supernova — The expanding remnant of SN 1987A, a Type II P supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud. NASA image. A Type II supernova (plural: supernovae) results from the rapid collapse and violent explosion of a massive star. A star must have at least 9… …   Wikipedia

• Semiregular variable star — Semiregular variable stars are giants or supergiants of intermediate and late spectral type showing considerable periodicity in their light changes, accompanied or sometimes interrupted by various irregularities. Periods lie in the range from 20… …   Wikipedia

• List of most massive stars — This is a list of the most massive stars so far discovered. The list is ordered by solar mass (1 solar mass = the mass of Earth s Sun). Stellar mass is the most important attribute of a star. Combined with chemical compositions, mass determines a …   Wikipedia

• Orion variable — An Orion variable is a variable star which exhibits irregular and eruptive variations in its luminosity and is typically associated with diffuse nebulae. It is thought that these are young stars which will later become regular, non variable stars …   Wikipedia

• List of most luminous stars — Below is a list of stars arranged in order of decreasing luminosity (increasing bolometric magnitude). Accurate measurement of stellar luminosities is quite difficult in practice, even when the apparent magnitude is measured accurately, for three …   Wikipedia

• List of nearest stars — Artist s conception of a red dwarf star, the most common type of star in the Sun s stellar neighborhood, and in the universe. Although termed a red dwarf, the surface temperature of this star would give it an orange hue when viewed from close… …   Wikipedia

• K-type main-sequence star — Hertzsprung–Russell Diagram Spectral Type Br …   Wikipedia

• Mira variable — Mira variables (  /ˈmaɪr …   Wikipedia

• Irregular variable — An irregular variable is a type of variable star in which variations in brightness show no regular periodicity. There are two main sub types of irregular variable: eruptive and pulsating.Eruptive irregular variables are divided into three… …   Wikipedia