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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 ...
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 .
The following are lists of stars. Stars are astronomical objects that spend some portion of their existence generating energy through thermonuclear fusion . By location
Pages in category "Stars with proper names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 433 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A black hole (artist concept); Vela Pulsar, a rotating neutron star; M80, a globular cluster, and the Pleiades, an open star cluster; The Whirlpool galaxy and Abell 2744, a galaxy cluster; Superclusters, galactic filaments and voids
List of star systems within 75–80 light-years; List of star systems within 80–85 light-years; List of star systems within 85–90 light-years; List of star systems within 90–95 light-years; List of star systems within 95–100 light-years; List of luminous blue variable stars; List of O-type stars; List of star systems within 100–150 ...
Double Star John Herschel: Andromeda 00 h 13 m: 31° 18′ 14.6 [6] NGC 46: Star Edward Cooper: Pisces 00 h 21.9 m: 22° 25′ 11.8 [7] NGC 82: Star Guillaume Bigourdan: Andromeda 00 h 21 m 17.5 s: 22° 27′ 37″ 14.6 [8] NGC 156: Double Star Wilhelm Tempel: Cetus 00 h 35 m: −08° 21′ [9] NGC 158: Double star Wilhelm Tempel: Cetus 00 h 35 ...