10 Most Shinning Stars In The Night Sky

Watching stars is fun, specially when there is total darkness and the whole sky is full of bright stars, even other strangest objects such as galaxies are also visible. People like going to places like deserts and mountain areas for sky watching where light pollution is nearly negligible. Astronomers always prefer these type of conditions so that they can easily spot objects which they need to analysis using their telescopes.

Here are the list of most brightest stars visible to the naked eye:

SIRIUS

Sirius is also knows as Dog Star and is the brightest star in the night sky and is 8.5 light-years away. It is also the fifth closest star to the Sun.. Sirius comes from the Greek word Seirius, meaning, "searing" or "scorching."

CANOPUS

Canopus is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Carina, and the second brightest star in the night-time sky, after Sirius. It is known as the Star of the Old Man in Chinese. An occasional name seen in English is Suhail, from the Arabic name for several bright stars, سهيل suhayl.

ALPHA CENTAURI

Alpha Centauri is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Centaurus and an established binary star system, Alpha Centauri AB. This prominent southern star commonly bears the proper name Rigil Kentaurus derived from the Arabic phrase Rijl Qantūris.

ARCTURUS

Arcturus is the brightest star in the constellation Boötes. The name of the star derives from Ancient Greek Arktouros and means "Guardian of the Bear". Arcturus is 36.7 light years  from Earth, relatively close in astronomical terms. It is 25.7 times that of the sun and 2/3 the radius of of Mercury’s orbit!

VEGA

Vega is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, the fifth brightest star in the night sky and the second brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere, after Arcturus. It is f 2.73 ± 0.01 times bigger than the radius of the Sun.

FOMALHAUT

Fomalhaut is the brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus and one of the brightest stars in the sky and can be seen low in the southern sky in the northern hemisphere in fall and early winter evenings. Its name means "mouth of the whale", from the Arabic فم الحوت fum al-hawt.

RIGEL

is the brightest star in the constellation Orion. The star’s name comes from its location at the "left foot" of Orion and the Arabic name is رجل الجبار rigl al-gabbār, "the foot of the great one".

PROCYON

Procyon is the brightest star in the constellation Canis Minor. To the naked eye, it appears to be a single star. Its name comes from the Greek προκύον (prokyon), meaning "before the dog", since it precedes the "Dog Star" Sirius as it travels across the sky due to Earth’s rotation.

ACHERNAR

Achernar is the brightest star in the constellation Eridanus and the ninth-brightest star in the night time sky. The name comes from the Arabic آخر النهر ākhir an-nahr "river’s end".

BETELGEUSE

Betelgeuse is a semiregular variable star located approximately 640 light-years from the Earth and one of the largest and most luminous stars known. The proper name for this star, Betelgeuse is also spelled Betelgeux, Beteigeuze in German and the last part of the name "-elgeuse" comes from Arabic الجوزاء al-Jauzā’, the indigenous Arabic name for the constellation Orion.

Source: WIKIPEDIA

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