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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 ...
Galaxy Quest is an acknowledged homage to Star Trek; Parisot said "Part of the mission for me was to make a great ' Star Trek ' episode." [ 11 ] Gordon's original script was titled Galaxy Quest: The Motion Picture as a reference to the first feature Star Trek film , and elements such as departing the space dock and the malfunctioning ...
A Meta Quest 3. This is a list of video games available for the Oculus Quest, Oculus/Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest Pro, Meta Quest 3, and/or Meta Quest 3S that are notable enough for Wikipedia articles. Games that require sideloading are included in this list.
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.
Justin Long is looking back with gratitude as Galaxy Quest turns 25 — specifically, for the people he worked with, including the late Alan Rickman.. Long made his film debut in the 1999 sci-fi ...
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
A Sanskrit boy’s name that means ‘star’ and ‘protector.' 22. Zeke. Although in Hebrew Zeke is a shortened version of Ezekial, the Old Testament prophet, in Arabic the name means ...
Of the fifty-seven stars included in the new almanac, these two had no traditional names. The RAF insisted that all of the stars must have names, so new names were invented for them. [8] These names have been approved by the IAU WGSN. [2] The book Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning by R. H. Allen (1899) [9] has had effects on star names: