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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 ...
Dark Star "The Derelict" – the name given to the abandoned alien spacecraft discovered by the crew of the deep space tug Nostromo in the film Alien (1979) [48] Darksyde – The Predacon transwarp ship in the Beast Wars television series. [49] The name was spelled with a y in the Beast Wars video game and in the DVD box set
Stars Without Number is a science fiction role-playing game set in the year 3200. The book provides a pre-generated series of planets, but the gamemaster can also use a system of nested random tables to first create a sector in space seeded with random stars. Each star has one main planet, which the gamemaster creates, giving it two randomly ...
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 ...
This is a list of fictional galactic communities who are space-faring, in contact with one or more space-faring civilizations or are part of a larger government, coalition, republic, organization or alliance of two or more separate space-faring civilizations.
Parodius (1988 video game) Parodius (1990 video game) PegLeg (video game) The Persistence; Phoenix (1980 video game) Pigs in Space (video game) Planet Laika; Planetoids (video game) Pocket Fleet; Power Punch II; Prey (2017 video game) Project Space Station; Project Sylpheed; Protector (Atari Jaguar video game) ProtoGalaxy; PULSAR: Lost Colony ...
Endless Space 2 is a strategic space opera set in a mysterious universe. Your story unfolds in a galaxy that was first colonized by God-like beings known as the "Endless", who rose and fell eons ago. All that remains of them are mystical ruins, powerful artifacts, and a strange, near-magical substance known as Dust.
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 .