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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 ...
Roblox occasionally hosts real-life and virtual events. They have in the past hosted events such as BloxCon, which was a convention for ordinary players on the platform. [99] Roblox operates annual Easter egg hunts [100] and also hosts an annual event called the "Bloxy Awards", an awards ceremony that also functions as a fundraiser. The 2020 ...
Lists of galaxies. List of galaxies; List of largest galaxies; List of galaxies with richest globular cluster systems; List of nearest galaxies; List of galaxies named after people
Komossa's object is a galaxy in which the supermassive black hole disrupted a star. Lindsay-Shapley Ring is a ring galaxy in Volans; Maffei 1 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia and the closest giant elliptical galaxy to the Milky Way. Maffei 2 is a spiral galaxy about 10 million light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia.
Proper names of planetary systems often follow common themes – for example, the planets of the star Copernicus are named after European astronomers. Proper names for planets outside of the Solar System – known as exoplanets – are chosen by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) through public naming contests known as NameExoWorlds.
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 ...
Binello is noted for his development techniques, which include playing the game on alternate accounts to gauge the reactions of new players. [66] MeepCity was the first game on Roblox to pass 1 billion total visits. [66] The game was averaging 100,000 concurrent players in July 2018. [65]
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 on Public Naming of Planets and Planetary Satellites during the 2015 NameExoWorlds campaign [6] and recognized by the ...