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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 ...
List of the largest known stars in the Milky Way Star name Solar radius (R ☉) Method [a] Notes Orbit of Saturn: 2,047 – 2,049.9 [10] [b] Reported for reference: Theoretical limit of star size (Milky Way) ≳1,700 [11] L/T eff: Estimated by measuring the fraction of red supergiants at higher luminosities in a large sample of supernova ...
c. 300 BC — star catalog of Timocharis of Alexandria; c. 134 BC — Hipparchus makes a detailed star map; c. 150 — Ptolemy completes his Almagest, which contains a catalog of stars, observations of planetary motions, and treatises on geometry and cosmology; c. 705 — Dunhuang Star Chart, a manuscript star chart from the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang
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
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 ...
The following is a list of stars with resolved images, that is, stars whose images have been resolved beyond a point source. Aside from the Sun , observed from Earth , stars are exceedingly small in apparent size, requiring the use of special high-resolution equipment and techniques to image.
Timeline of knowledge about galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and large-scale structure Graphical timeline from Big Bang to Heat Death Graphical timeline of the Big Bang
Johann Bayer's Uranometria star atlas was published in 1603, with over 1200 stars. Names combine a Greek letter with a constellation name: for example, Alpha Centauri . John Flamsteed 's Historia coelestis Britannica star atlas , published in 1725, lists stars using numbers combined with constellation, for example 61 Cygni , and ordered by ...