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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.
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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 .
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
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1929 — George Gamow proposes hydrogen fusion as the energy source for stars; 1938 — Hans Bethe and Carl von Weizsäcker detail the proton–proton chain and CNO cycle in stars; 1939 — Rupert Wildt realizes the importance of the negative hydrogen ion for stellar opacity; 1952 — Walter Baade distinguishes between Cepheid I and Cepheid II ...
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List of stars with resolved images; List of brightest stars; List of star systems within 20–25 light-years; List of star systems within 25–30 light-years; List of star systems within 30–35 light-years; List of star systems within 35–40 light-years; List of star systems within 40–45 light-years; List of star systems within 45–50 ...