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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
By 1781 the final published list grows to 103 objects, 34 of which turn out to be galaxies. 1785 – William Herschel carried the first attempt to describe the shape of the Milky Way and the position of the Sun in it by carefully counting the number of stars in different regions of the sky. He produced a diagram of the shape of the galaxy with ...
List of O-type stars; List of star systems within 100–150 light-years; List of Wolf-Rayet stars; List of star systems within 150–200 light-years; List of star systems within 200–250 light-years; List of star systems within 250–300 light-years; List of star systems within 300–350 light-years; List of star systems within 350–400 light ...
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 April 2022, the list included a total of 451 proper names of stars.
Timeline of stellar astronomy. 1200 BC — Chinese star names appear on oracle bones used for divination. 134 BC — Hipparchus creates the magnitude scale of stellar apparent luminosities; 185 AD — Chinese astronomers become the first to observe a supernova, the SN 185
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 .
Timeline of the early universe; ... Timeline of knowledge about galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and large-scale structure ... Timeline of white dwarfs, neutron stars ...
Ptolemy publishes his star catalogue, listing 48 constellations and endorses the geocentric (Earth-centered) view of the universe. His views go unquestioned for nearly 1500 years in Europe and are passed down to Arabic and medieval European astronomers in his book the Almagest .