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2. List of proper names of stars - Wikipedia

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   Many star names are, in origin, descriptive of the part in the constellation they are found in; thus Phecda, a corruption of Arabic فخذ الدب ( fakhdh ad-dubb, 'thigh of the bear'). Only a handful of the brightest stars have individual proper names not depending on their asterism; so Sirius ('the scorcher'), Antares ('rival of Ares ', i.e ...

3. Milky Way - Wikipedia

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   The Milky Way [c] is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.

4. List of star-forming regions in the Local Group - Wikipedia

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   Composite image showing young stars in and around molecular cloud Cepheus B.. This is a list of star-forming regions located in the Milky Way Galaxy and in the Local Group.Star formation occurs in molecular clouds which become unstable to gravitational collapse, and these complexes may contain clusters of young stars and regions of ionized gas called H II regions.

5. Stellar designations and names - Wikipedia

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   The Bright Star Catalogue, which is a star catalogue listing all stars of apparent magnitude 6.5 or brighter, or roughly every star visible to the naked eye from Earth, contains 9,096 stars. The most voluminous modern catalogues list on the order of a billion stars, out of an estimated total of 200 to 400 billion in the Milky Way .

6. List of largest stars - Wikipedia

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   List of the largest known stars in the Milky Way Star name Solar radii (Sun = 1) Method Notes Orbit of Saturn: 2,047 – 2,049.9: Reported for reference: WOH G64 (For comparison) 1,540 ± 77: L/T eff: Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Possibly the largest known star. Theoretical limit of star size (Milky Way)

7. Carina–Sagittarius Arm - Wikipedia

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   Observed structure of the Milky Way 's spiral arms. The Carina–Sagittarius Arm (also known as the Sagittarius Arm or Sagittarius–Carina Arm, labeled -I [clarification needed]) is generally thought to be a minor spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy. [1] Each spiral arm is a long, diffuse curving streamer of stars that radiates from the ...

8. List of open clusters - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of open clusters located in the Milky Way. An open cluster is an association of up to a few thousand stars that all formed from the same giant molecular cloud. There are over 1,000 known open clusters in the Milky Way galaxy, but the actual total may be up to ten times higher. [1] The estimated half-lives of clusters, after which ...

9. Backyard Universe: Want to see a cool astronomical event ...

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   The star clouds of the Milky Way hang over the Cape Lookout Lighthouse and its keepers' quarters in this Oct. 2, 2021, photo. The Cape Lookout area is a designated dark sky site where light ...