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List of brightest stars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (550 words) |
 | Below the 100 brightest stars as seen from Earth (by apparent magnitude at visible wavelengths) according to the Hipparcos sky survey. |
| The absolute magnitude is a measure of the star's luminosity – the total amount of visible energy radiated by a star every second, as it would be at a standard distance of 10 parsecs away from the star itself). |
| Note that even the brightest star, at a luminosity of 40 million suns, it is still not the brightest object in the universe. |
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