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Star name Temperature ()Spectral type Distance (light years) Notes WISE 0855–0714: 285 Y4 7.426 ± 0.039 [9]WISE 0336-0143B [10]: 295 ± 10 [11]: Y1? 32.7 [12]: spectral type is not yet published, but should be around Y1 if we assume MIRI F480M is similar to W2 and by using Figure 13 from Kirkpatrick et al. 2012 [13] Might be a later spectral type.
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 ...
Lists of stars. List of nearest stars; List of brightest stars; List of hottest stars; List of nearest bright stars; List of most luminous stars; List of most massive stars; List of largest known stars; List of smallest stars; List of oldest stars; List of stars with proplyds; List of variable stars; List of semiregular variable stars; List of ...
C-N – Formerly its own class representing the carbon star equivalent of late K- to M-type stars. C-J – A subtype of cool C stars with a high content of 13 C. C-H – Population II analogues of the C-R stars. C-Hd – Hydrogen-deficient carbon stars, similar to late G supergiants with CH and C 2 bands added.
Celebrities are famous for giving their kids unusual names (think Blue Ivy and Apple). But some stars, such as Bindi Irwin, take a more traditional approach. Irwin and her husband, Chandler Powell ...
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 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
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 .