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These names of stars that have either been approved by the International Astronomical Union or which have been in somewhat recent use. IAU approval comes mostly from its Working Group on Star Names, which has been publishing a "List of IAU-approved Star Names" since 2016. As of April 2022, the list included a total of 451 proper names of stars. [1]
All approved names are included on the current List of IAU-approved Star Names, last updated on 1 June 2018. [6] The WGSN rules generally discouraged the naming of stars after people, but confirmed the names Cervantes and Copernicus as well as four others:
Goddesses associated with the stars and constellations. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. A. Astarte (2 C, 50 P) I ...
The big winner for girl names in 2023 in the United States is the 'a' ending. Eight of the top ten names end with the first letter of the alphabet: Olivia, Emma, Amelia, Sophia, Mia, Isabella, Ava ...
This is a list of astronomical objects named after people. While topological features on Solar System bodies — such as craters, mountains, and valleys — are often named after famous or historical individuals, many stars and deep-sky objects are named after the individual(s) who discovered or otherwise studied it.
Rather, star names are selected on a non-commercial basis by a small number of international organizations of astronomers, scientists, and registration bodies, who assign names consisting usually of a Greek letter followed by the star's constellation name, or less frequently based on their ancient traditional name. [15]
In this list, a star is identified by a lower-case letter of the Greek alphabet, followed by the Latin name of its parent constellation. The Bayer designation uses the possessive form of a constellation's name, which in almost every case ends in is, i or ae; um if the constellation's name is plural (see genitive case for constellations). In ...
Many of the top names on the SSA's list of names that increased in popularity fit this bill, including Izael (which moved up 860 places in rank between this year and last year, making it the ...