Celestial bodies

Guess the names of other famous celestial bodies outside our own solar system.

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Hint	Answer
4.25 lightyears away, closest star to us	Proxima Centauri
4.37 lightyears away	Alpha Centauri
Brightest star in the night sky	Sirius
First star other than ours to be photographed	Vega
12 lightyears away, destination of project hail mary	Tau Ceti
The North star	Polaris
A red supergiant expected to go supernova soon, 642 lightyears away	Betelgeuse
Brightest star in the Orion constillation	Rigel

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Black hole in the centre of our galaxy	Sagittarius A*
First black hole to be photographed	Messier 87
Largest star	Stephenson 2-18
Largest black hole	Phoenix A
Third closest star to us, after question 1 and 2	Barnard's star
Closest known black hole	Gaia BH1
Closest Nebula	Helix Nebula
Closest spiral galaxy	Andromeda