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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 ...
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
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.
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 ...
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
Pages in category "Star types" The following 88 pages are in this category, out of 88 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. A-type main-sequence star;
This list covers all known stars, white dwarfs, brown dwarfs, and sub-brown dwarfs within 20 light-years ... List of star systems within 25–30 light-years;
4 Star constellations. 5 Star clusters. 6 Nebulae. 7 Galaxies. 8 Galaxy groups and clusters. ... This is a list of lists, grouped by type of astronomical object ...