List of star extremes

A star is a massive luminous spheroid astronomical object made of plasma that is held together by its own gravity. Stars exhibit great diversity in their properties (such as mass, volume, velocity, stage in stellar evolution, and distance from Earth) and some of the outliers are so disproportionate in comparison with the general population that they are considered extreme. This is a list of such stars.
Records that are regarded as authoritative and unlikely to change at any given point are recorded on a white background, while those that could change with new information and/or discoveries are recorded on a grey background.
Title 	Object 	Date 	Data 	Comments 	See more
Nearest star 	Sun 	3rd century BC	1 AU 	Our local star's distance was first determined in the 3rd century BC by Aristarchus of Samos 	
Second nearest star 	Proxima Centauri 	1915 	4.24 ly 	Also called Alpha Centauri C, it is the outlying star in a trinary star system. This is currently the nearest known neighbouring star to our own Sun. This star was discovered in 1915, and its parallax was determined at the time, when enough observations were established.	List of nearest stars
Farthest individually seen star	MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1	2014 	9 billion ly 	 	
Oldest star 	HD 140283 	1912 	13.6 billion years	Also called "Methuselah Star" 	
Nearest degenerate star 	Sirius B 	1852 	8.6 ly 	This is also the nearest white dwarf. 	
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