I'm bored what is the brightest known star?

Question

I'm bored what is the brightest known star?

Answer 1

Alpha Canis Majoris in the constellation Sirius, or dog star.

It is also one of, if not the largest star that we know of so far.

http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/stars....

Answer 2

Britney Spears

Answer 3

the one that out shines all the rest

Answer 4

A team of researchers has found what appears to be the most luminous known star around, one so massive that it shouldn’t have formed in the first place.

The star, known as LBV 1806-20, tips the scales of stellar masses at about 150 times the heft of the Sun. It shines up to 40 million times brighter than the Sun. The previous title-holder called the Pistol Star, is a mere six million times brighter than the Sun and weighs about 100 solar masses.

Brightest with the naked eye:  (besides the Sun)

All stars shine but none do it like Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky. Aptly named, Sirius comes from the Greek word Seirius, meaning, "searing" or "scorching." Blazing at a visual magnitude of -1.42, it is twice as bright as any other star in our sky.

Sorry, these aren't links, but I just searched for brightest known star and found both of them.

Answer 5

In our sky: Sirius.  That's in our galaxy.  In other galaxies...who knows?

Answer 6

The sun........

Answer 7

It's the sun because it's the closest star to the Earth

Answer 8

it all depends on what you mean by that the sun is the brightest star we see but if you mean at night than you have to specify whether it be apparent magnitude which is the brightness of on object as we see it from earth.or the absolute magnitude which is how it would appear from 32.6 light years away or 10 parsecs.so if you mean absolute it would have to be LBV 1806-20,but if you mean apparent magnitude it would have to be Sirius aka alpha canis majoris.the dog star.

Answer 9

The sun technically, but to give you a legitimate answer it would be Sirius.

Answer 10

LBV 1806-20

Answer 11

The star, known as LBV 1806-20, tips the scales of stellar masses at about 150 times the heft of the Sun. It shines up to 40 million times brighter than the Sun. The previous title-holder called the Pistol Star, is a mere six million times brighter than the Sun and weighs about 100 solar masses.

Answer 12

Our sun, obviously, but for a regular, old, looking-in-the-starry-night-sky type star, I'd say the North Star...

Answer 13

Sirius the dog star.

Answer 14

It depends on how you define brightest!

If you mean the one that looks brightest to us - then this is a function of both intrinsic brightness and distance.

Consequently, the one tht looks brightest is definitely the sun.

After that, (assuming you mean stars you can see at night), it would be Sirius.

If you mean which star is brightest intrinsically (i.e. if all stars were at the same distance, which one would look brightest) - then the LBV that is 40 million times as bright as the sun would be the winner...