enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of proper names of stars - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proper_names_of_stars

    These names of stars that have either been approved by the International Astronomical Union or which have been in somewhat recent use. IAU approval comes mostly from its Working Group on Star Names, which has been publishing a "List of IAU-approved Star Names" since 2016. As of April 2022, the list included a total of 451 proper names of stars. [1]

  3. Lists of star names - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_star_names

    In astronomy, star names, in contrast to star designations, are proper names of stars that have emerged from usage in pre-modern astronomical traditions. Lists of these names appear in the following articles: List of Arabic star names; List of Chinese star names; List of proper names of stars: traditional proper names in modern usage around ...

  4. Stellar designations and names - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_designations_and_names

    The Bright Star Catalogue, which is a star catalogue listing all stars of apparent magnitude 6.5 or brighter, or roughly every star visible to the naked eye from Earth, contains 9,096 stars. [1] The most voluminous modern catalogues list on the order of a billion stars, out of an estimated total of 200 to 400 billion in the Milky Way .

  5. List of galaxies - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_galaxies

    The name of this galaxy is based on a Redshift (z) measurement of nearly 7 (actually, z = 6.604). [ 5 ] Galaxy Cosmos Redshift 7 is reported to be the brightest of distant galaxies (z > 6) and to contain some of the earliest first stars ( first generation ; Population III ) that produced the chemical elements needed for the later formation of ...

  6. Lists of stars - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_stars

    The following is a list of particularly notable actual or hypothetical stars that have their own articles in Wikipedia, but are not included in the lists above. BPM 37093 — a diamond star Cygnus X-1 — X-ray source

  7. List of largest stars - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_stars

    List of the largest known stars in Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies Star name Solar radii (Sun = 1) Galaxy Method [a] Notes Theoretical limit of star size (Andromeda Galaxy) ≳1,750 [11] L/T eff: Estimated by measuring the fraction of red supergiants at higher luminosities in a large sample of stars. Assumes an effective temperature of 3,625 K.

  8. 100 Baby Names That Mean Star - AOL

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/100-baby-names-mean-star...

    Mint Images/Getty Images. A Sanskrit boy’s name that means ‘star’ and ‘protector.' 22. Zeke. Although in Hebrew Zeke is a shortened version of Ezekial, the Old Testament prophet, in Arabic ...

  9. Astronomical naming conventions - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_naming...

    In this list, a star is identified by a lower-case letter of the Greek alphabet, followed by the Latin name of its parent constellation. The Bayer designation uses the possessive form of a constellation's name, which in almost every case ends in is , i or ae ; um if the constellation's name is plural (see genitive case for constellations ) .