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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 ...
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 ...
All are included on the current List of IAU-approved Star Names. [8] The star nearest to Earth is typically referred to simply as "the Sun" or its equivalent in the language being used (for instance, if two astronomers were speaking French, they would call it le Soleil). However, it is usually called by its Latin name, Sol, in science fiction.
Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the universe was half its age. In 'groundbreaking' study, astronomers detect ...
Of several items, then called radio stars, Cygnus A was identified with a distant galaxy, being the first of many radio stars to become a radio galaxy. [24] [25] First quasar: 3C 273: Virgo: 1962 3C273 was the first quasar with its redshift determined, and by some considered the first quasar. [citation needed] 3C 48: Triangulum: 1960
The issue of whether to add a space between the parent star's name and the planetary designation determined by scientific literature references. In most cases, planets named with Bayer , Flamsteed , and or Variable star designation have a space, but usage with other designations varies e.g. WASP-12b but HD 209458 b .
The X Foundation doesn’t have any formal association with Musk, but it has 736,500 shares of Tesla Inc. stock and was given $100 million for the new school by the Musk Foundation, reports The ...
List of the largest known stars in Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies Star name Solar radii (Sun = 1) Galaxy Method [a] Notes Theoretical limit of star size (Andromeda Galaxy) ≳1,750 [11] L/T eff: Estimated by measuring the fraction of red supergiants at higher luminosities in a large sample of stars. Assumes an effective temperature of 3,625 K.