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In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [2] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, [3] included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee ...
It aired under the name Tonight for several of its early years, eventually settling on The Tonight Show after the seating of long-time host Johnny Carson in 1962. In later decades, network programmers, advertisers, and the show's announcers would refer to the show by including the name of the host; for example, since 2014 it is called The ...
The Tonight Show from the Museum of Broadcast Communications website; Carson's official Tonight Show website; Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress; The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson at IMDb The Man Who Retired a June 2002 Esquire article also available here; Johnny Carson, late-night TV legend, dies at 79, a January 2005 CNN ...
Season of television series List of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson episodes No. of episodes 64 Release Original network NBC Season chronology ← Previous Season 1961 Next → 1963 episodes List of episodes The following is a list of episodes of the television series The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson which aired in 1962: October No. Original release date Guest(s) Musical ...
That list is available at list of quasars. 8C 1435+63: 1994–1997: z=4.25 This is a radio galaxy. At the time of its discovery, quasar PC 1247-3406 at z=4.73, discovered in 1991 was the most remote object known. This was the last radio galaxy to hold the title of most distant galaxy.
The Sun is the brightest star as viewed from Earth, at −26.78 mag. The second brightest is Sirius at −1.46 mag. For comparison, the brightest non-stellar objects in the Solar System have maximum brightnesses of: the Moon −12.7 mag [1] Venus −4.92 mag; Jupiter −2.94 mag; Mars −2.94 mag; Mercury −2.48 mag; Saturn −0.55 mag [2]
Komossa's object is a galaxy in which the supermassive black hole disrupted a star. Lindsay-Shapley Ring is a ring galaxy in Volans; Maffei 1 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia and the closest giant elliptical galaxy to the Milky Way. Maffei 2 is a spiral galaxy about 10 million light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia.
In astronomy, stars have a variety of different stellar designations and names, including catalogue designations, current and historical proper names, and foreign language names. 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.