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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 ...
Most things visible to the naked eye in the sky are part of it, including the Milky Way composing the Zone of Avoidance. [12] Large Magellanic Cloud: 0.9 160 kly (49 kpc) Dorado/Mensa: Visible only from the southern hemisphere. It is also the brightest patch of nebulosity in the sky. [12] [13] [14] Small Magellanic Cloud (NGC 292) 2.7 200 kly ...
The corrected color was initially published on the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) News website and updated on the team's initial announcement. [5] Multiple news outlets, including NPR and BBC, displayed the color in stories [6] and some relayed the request by Glazebrook on the announcement asking for suggestions for names, jokingly adding all were welcome as long as they were not "beige".
In this map of the Observable Universe, objects appear enlarged to show their shape. From left to right celestial bodies are arranged according to their proximity to the Earth. This horizontal (distance to Earth) scale is logarithmic.
Many people have seen a rainbow arch across the sky, creating a ribbon of colors as rain falls nearby, but few have seen two at once. Rainbows appear when sunlight is reflected by raindrops ...
Second-brightest star in the night sky with a multiplanetary system after 7 Canis Majoris. All exoplanets orbit around star A in the binary system. 47 Ursae Majoris: Ursa Major: 10 h 59 m 27.97 s +40° 25′ 48.9″ 5.10: 46: G0V: 1.029: 5892: 7.434: 3: Planet Taphao Thong was discovered in 1996 and was one of the first exoplanets to be ...
A bizarre other-wordly object was captured on camera by an Oklahoma family in the night sky on Monday night.. A TikTok video that has amassed almost half a million views, shows a bright, slow ...
One of the galaxies is an ungravitationally bound background object. The other "galaxy" is instead an extension of the interacting system — a tidal stream caused by the merger. The group is, therefore, more properly called HCG 79; the name refers to the visual collection and not the group. HCG 79 lies 190 million light-years away in the ...