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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]
Below are lists of the largest stars currently known, ordered by radius and separated into categories by galaxy. The unit of measurement used is the radius of the Sun (approximately 695,700 km; 432,300 mi). [1] The Sun, the orbit of Earth, Jupiter, and Neptune, compared to four stars (Pistol Star, Rho Cassiopeiae, Betelgeuse, and VY Canis Majoris)
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
An analysis of the lightcurve of the microlensing event PA-99-N2 suggests the presence of a planet orbiting a star in the Andromeda Galaxy. [ 97 ] A controversial microlensing event of lobe A of the double gravitationally lensed Q0957+561 suggests that there is a planet in the lensing galaxy lying at redshift 0.355 (3.7 Gly).
[NB 1] [1] [2] List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs: Most distant individually seen star WHL0137-LS (Earendel) 2022 z= 6.2 ± 0.1 12.9 Gly [3] [4] List of the most distant astronomical objects: Most distant star Stars in JADES-GS-z14-0: 2024 z= 13.27 13.6 Gly (light travel distance) 34 Gly (proper distance) [5] List of the most distant ...
Galaxy Apparent Magnitude Star Distance (ly) Spectral type Notes Milky Way –26.74 Sun 0 G2V Large Magellanic Cloud: 8.99 – 9.22 (variable) [10] HD 33579: 163,000 A3Ia + The Luminous Blue Variables S Doradus and R71 are brighter during their outbursts. Small Magellanic Cloud: 10.47 [11] SK 69: 200,000 B8Ia Andromeda Galaxy: 15.6 [12 ...
SpaceEngine is an interactive 3D planetarium and astronomy software [2] initially developed by Russian astronomer and programmer Vladimir Romanyuk. [3] Development is now continued by Cosmographic Software, an American company founded by Romanyuk and the SpaceEngine Team in February 2022, based in Connecticut.
This is a list of largest galaxies known, sorted by order of increasing major axis diameters. The unit of measurement used is the light-year (approximately 9.46 × 10 12 kilometers). Overview