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There are several different types of stars around our universe. Below is a list of known star types.

A[]

B[]

  • B-type main-sequence star
  • Barium star
  • Be star
  • Binary pulsar
  • Binary star
  • Black dwarf
  • Black star
  • Blue dwarf
  • Blue giant
  • Blue hypergiant
  • Blue straggler
  • Blue supergiant
  • Bright giant
  • Brown dwarf

C[]

D[]

  • Dark-energy star
  • Double star

E[]

  • Electroweak star
  • Exotic star

F[]

G[]

H[]

  • Helium star
  • Herbig Ae/Be star
  • Hypergiant
  • Hypernova

I[]

K[]

  • K-type main-sequence star

L[]

  • Lambda Boötis star
  • Late-type star
  • Lead star
  • Luminous blue variable

M[]

  • Magnetar
  • Magnetospheric eternally collapsing object
  • Main-sequence star
  • Mercury-manganese star

N[]

O[]

  • O-type main-sequence star
  • O-type stars
  • OB star
  • Optical pulsar

P[]

  • Peculiar star
  • PG 1159 star
  • Photometric-standard star
  • Planetar
  • Pre-main-sequence star
  • Preon star
  • Protostar
  • Pulsar

Q[]

  • Q star
  • Quark star
  • Quasi-star

R[]

S[]

  • S-type star
  • Shell star
  • Soft gamma repeater
  • Star Death
  • Stellar black hole
  • Sub-brown dwarf
  • Subdwarf B star
  • Subdwarf star
  • Subgiant
  • Supergiant

T[]

  • T Tauri type stars
  • Technetium star
  • Thorne–Żytkow object

V[]

  • Variable star

W[]

X[]

  • X-ray pulsar

Y[]

  • Yellow giant
  • Yellow hypergiant
  • Yellow supergiant
  • Young stellar object
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