Perhaps it is called the Betelgeuse
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But only if you consider a red supergiant to be a medium-sized star!
Old Ironsides
A star that is forming is called a protostar.
The north star is a star, not a planet. It is called Polaris. The planet Venus is called the Evening Star
Our star is called the Sun or Sol.
The star is called a Magen David
star anise is called "star anisi" in hausa language.
Its called Sirius and also called Dog star.
The planet Venus has at times been called the Morning Star or the Evening Star, although it is not a star.
The brightest star in the sky is called Sirius which is also called the Dog star.
It is called the North Star, the Pole Star, Alpha Ursae Minoris.
A sea star is called a sea star simply because of where it lives (the sea) and what it looks like (a star), simple!
the brightness of a star is called it's magnitude