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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 ...
Tucana (The Toucan) is a constellation in the southern sky, named after the toucan, a South American bird.It is one of twelve constellations conceived in the late sixteenth century by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman.
In 2016, the IAU organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [4] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin of July 2016 [5] included a table of 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 Working Group ...
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 ...
Astronomers have identified two ancient streams of stars - named after the Hindu deities Shakti and Shiva - that appear to be among the Milky Way's earliest building blocks, offering new insight ...
The bird's name will no longer acknowledge John James Audubon, the famous bird illustrator the National Audubon Society is named after in recognition of his contributions to the field of ornithology.
The International Astronomical Union has held two NameExoWorlds contests to give proper names to exoplanets and their host stars, in 2014/5 and 2019. [10] [11] As a result, several stars were named after people, including Cervantes for Mu Arae, Copernicus for 55 Cancri A, [6] [12] and Rosalíadecastro (HD 149143) after the writer Rosalía de ...
The American Ornithological Society will be changing the names of all birds currently named after people (152 species in the U.S. and Canada). This colorful bird is named after a slave owner.