Wray 17-96 is a very luminous star in the Scorpius constellation, about 20,000 light-years (7 kpc) away.

It is a suspected luminous blue variable (LBV), although it has not shown the characteristic spectral variations.

Wray 17-96 has an absolute bolometric magnitude of −10.9 (1.8 million times the Sun's luminosity), making it one of the most luminous stars known.

It is highly reddened by interstellar extinction and the visual brightness is reduced by nearly 9 magnitudes.

[3] Wray 17-96 is also notable for its highly symmetrical ring-shaped 10 M☉ gas shell,[3] which was originally classified as a planetary nebula.