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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
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 February 2025, the list included a total of 492 proper names of ...
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 ...
Lists of stars. List of nearest stars; List of brightest stars; List of hottest stars; List of nearest bright stars; List of most luminous stars; List of most massive stars; List of largest known stars; List of smallest stars; List of oldest stars; List of stars with proplyds; List of variable stars; List of semiregular variable stars; List of ...
Pages in category "Stars with proper names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 433 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Only a tiny minority of known stars have proper names; all others have only designations from various catalogues or lists, or no identifier at all. Hipparchus in the 2nd century BC enumerated about 850 naked-eye stars. Johann Bayer in 1603 listed about twice this number. Only in the 19th century did star catalogues list the naked-eye stars ...
S. 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
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