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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 ...
Galaxy Quest is an acknowledged homage to Star Trek; Parisot said "Part of the mission for me was to make a great ' Star Trek ' episode." [ 11 ] Gordon's original script was titled Galaxy Quest: The Motion Picture as a reference to the first feature Star Trek film , and elements such as departing the space dock and the malfunctioning ...
Quadro Quiz II: 1985: Status Games: Quiz: 1991: Elettronolo: Quiz: Ah! My Goddess: 2000: Sega Enterprises, Ltd. (of Tokyo, Japan) Quiz & Dragons: Capcom Quiz Game ...
A Meta Quest 3. This is a list of video games available for the Oculus Quest, Oculus/Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest Pro, Meta Quest 3, and/or Meta Quest 3S that are notable enough for Wikipedia articles. Games that require sideloading are included in this list.
List of Solar System objects most distant from the Sun; List of Solar System objects by size; Lists of geological features of the Solar System; List of natural satellites (moons) Lists of small Solar System bodies; Lists of comets; List of meteor showers; Minor planets. List of minor planets. List of exceptional asteroids; List of minor planet ...
Below are lists of the largest stars currently known, ordered by radius and separated into categories by galaxy. The unit of measurement used is the radius of the Sun (approximately 695,700 km; 432,300 mi). [1] The Sun, the orbit of Earth, Jupiter, and Neptune, compared to four stars (Pistol Star, Rho Cassiopeiae, Betelgeuse, and VY Canis Majoris)
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 ...
All stars but one can be associated with an IAU (International Astronomical Union) constellation. IAU constellations are areas of the sky. Although there are only 88 IAU constellations, the sky is actually divided into 89 irregularly shaped boxes as the constellation Serpens is split into two separate sections, Serpens Caput (the snake's head) to the west and Serpens Cauda (the snake's tail ...