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name: S Doradus
constellation: Dor
created_by: 8mag
created_date: 2022-01-21 17:00:00
updated_by: skybber
updated_date: 2022-02-05 20:16:22.631677
---
an exceptionally luminous star that surpasses the Sun by at least a million times in luminosity. It is one of the brightest stars ever. However, because of its distance, we cannot see it with the naked eye, and we only perceive it as a faint star whose brightness varies between 8mag and 11.5mag because it is an eclipsing variable star. Its components are between 1 400 and 1 200 times the diameter of our Sun. Its absolute brightness is about -11.