different stellar designations and names, including catalogue designations, current and historical proper names, and foreign language names. Only a tiny...
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Flamsteed designation Gould designation Lists of constellations Star catalogue Stellar designations and names Table of stars with Bayer designations Variable...
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societies List of proper names of stars NameExoWorlds Stars named after people Stellar designations and names "Division C – WG Star Names". Retrieved 23 August...
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GW170817 Cygnus loop Spaghetti Nebula SN 1987A Jellyfish nebula Stellar designations and names Heger, A.; Fryer, C. L.; Woosley, S. E.; Langer, N.; Hartmann...
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stars in Puppis, and a small number of stars in Centaurus and Lupus, have been given Flamsteed designations. Stellar designations and names Table of stars...
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names of exoplanets List of proper names of stars Proper names (astronomy) Stellar designations and names Stars named after people Overbye, Dennis (2 December...
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minor planets named after people List of people with craters of the Moon named after them NameExoWorlds Stellar designations and names "NameExoWorlds: An...
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assigning astronomical designations to celestial objects and surface features on them. The purpose of this is to ensure that names assigned are unambiguous...
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Star (redirect from Stellar radius)
catalogues that identify the known stars and provide standardized stellar designations. The observable universe contains an estimated 1022 to 1024 stars...
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In astronomy, stellar classification is the classification of stars based on their spectral characteristics. Electromagnetic radiation from the star is...
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1944, Walter Baade categorized groups of stars within the Milky Way into stellar populations. In the abstract of the article by Baade, he recognizes that...
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In astrophysics, stellar nucleosynthesis is the creation of chemical elements by nuclear fusion reactions within stars. Stellar nucleosynthesis has occurred...
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Stellar evolution is the process by which a star changes over the course of its lifetime and how it can lead to the creation of a new star. Depending on...
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A stellar wind is a flow of gas ejected from the upper atmosphere of a star. It is distinguished from the bipolar outflows characteristic of young stars...
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derivations, and magnitudes. NameExoWorlds Stars named after people Table of stars with Bayer designations Traditional Chinese star names NASA compiled...
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In astronomy, stellar kinematics is the observational study or measurement of the kinematics or motions of stars through space. Stellar kinematics encompasses...
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A stellar collision is the coming together of two stars caused by stellar dynamics within a star cluster, or by the orbital decay of a binary star due...
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Stellar dynamics is the branch of astrophysics which describes in a statistical way the collective motions of stars subject to their mutual gravity. The...
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current naming system is: Stars with existing Greek letter Bayer designations are not given new designations. Otherwise, start with the letter R and go through...
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multiple valid names or catalogue designations. The table lists their Bayer designation and the most common proper name. Most of the proper names have been...
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follows: Constellation Stars named with a Bayer, Flamsteed, HR, or Draper (not from the supplements) designation. Stellar extremes or otherwise noteworthy...
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Compact object (redirect from Stellar Remnant)
often the endpoints of stellar evolution and, in this respect, are also called stellar remnants. The state and type of a stellar remnant depends primarily...
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Star formation (redirect from Stellar nursery)
interstellar space, sometimes referred to as "stellar nurseries" or "star-forming regions", collapse and form stars. As a branch of astronomy, star formation...
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Star system (redirect from Stellar system)
different designations (for example, discoverer designations for visual binary stars and variable star designations for eclipsing binary stars), and, worse...
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The stellar atmosphere is the outer region of the volume of a star, lying above the stellar core, radiation zone and convection zone. The stellar atmosphere...
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Stellar drift, or the motion of stars, is a necessary result of the lack of an absolute reference frame in special relativity. Nothing in space stands...
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In stellar evolution, an isochrone is a curve on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, representing a population of stars of the same age but with different...
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A stellar core is the extremely hot, dense region at the center of a star. For an ordinary main sequence star, the core region is the volume where the...
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Alnitak (category Stars with proper names)
constellation of Orion. It has the designations ζ Orionis, which is Latinised to Zeta Orionis and abbreviated Zeta Ori or ζ Ori, and 50 Orionis, abbreviated 50...
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and objects too close together to be distinguished are listed jointly. Objects are listed by their proper names or their most commonly used stellar designation...
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