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  2. List of proper names of stars - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. List of astronomical objects named after people - Wikipedia

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    Holmberg II is a dwarf irregular galaxy about 9.8 million light-years away in the M81 Group; Holmberg IX is a dwarf irregular galaxy and a satellite galaxy of Messier 81. Holmberg 15A is a supergiant elliptical galaxy and the central dominant galaxy of the Abell 85 galaxy cluster in the constellation Cetus. Huchra's Lens is a lensed galaxy.

  4. List of galaxies - Wikipedia

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    The name of this galaxy is based on a Redshift (z) measurement of nearly 7 (actually, z = 6.604). [ 5 ] Galaxy Cosmos Redshift 7 is reported to be the brightest of distant galaxies (z > 6) and to contain some of the earliest first stars ( first generation ; Population III ) that produced the chemical elements needed for the later formation of ...

  5. Lists of star names - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. List of largest galaxies - Wikipedia

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    Listed below are galaxies with diameters greater than 700,000 light-years. This list uses the mean cosmological parameters of the Lambda-CDM model based on results from the 2015 Planck collaboration, where H 0 = 67.74 km/s/Mpc, Ω Λ = 0.6911, and Ω m = 0.3089. [3]

  7. List of proper names of exoplanets - Wikipedia

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    The IAU's names for exoplanets – and on most occasions their host stars – are chosen by the Executive Committee Working Group (ECWG) on Public Naming of Planets and Planetary Satellites, a group working parallel with the Working Group on Star Names (WGSN). [1] Proper names of stars chosen by the ECWG are explicitly recognised by the WGSN. [1]

  8. Astronomical naming conventions - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. List of blue straggler stars - Wikipedia

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    1.1 Milky Way galaxy. 2 See also. 3 References. Toggle the table of contents. ... This is a list of blue straggler stars in order of their distance from Earth. [1] [2 ...