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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 IAU's names for exoplanets – and on most occasions their host stars – are chosen by the Executive Committee Working Group (ECWG) on Public Naming of Planets and Planetary Satellites, a group working parallel with the Working Group on Star Names (WGSN). [1] Proper names of stars chosen by the ECWG are explicitly recognised by the WGSN. [1]
Another star-inspired name that refers to a constellation and has an astrological match, of course. Summer babies may vibe with this one. 15. Orion. This handsome Greek name also gets its star ...
The space velocity components of this star are (U, V, W) = (−35, +20, +30) km/s. [24] Approximately 350,000 years ago, Alpha Fornacis experienced a close encounter with the A-type main-sequence star Nu Horologii. The two came within an estimated 0.265 ly (0.081 pc) of each other, and both stars have debris disks. [25]
There are a few fire names that are on the top 1,000 names for boys and girls, according to the Social Security Administration. Hayden, Aiden and Phoenix are all in the top 1,000 most popular names.
Thus Acamar is modern, and not equal to ākhir an-nahr, which would be the medieval Arabic name. If you call the star "Acamar", you are using a modern name, only if you actually call it ākhir an-nahr are you using a "traditional" or "Arabic" name. --dab 05:58, 8 November 2016 (UTC)