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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. 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. Timeline of knowledge about galaxies, clusters of galaxies ...

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   5th century BC — Democritus proposes that the bright band in the night sky known as the Milky Way might consist of stars. 4th century BC — Aristotle believes the Milky Way to be caused by "the ignition of the fiery exhalation of some stars which were large, numerous and close together" and that the "ignition takes place in the upper part of the atmosphere, in the region of the world which ...

5. List of largest stars - Wikipedia

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   List of the largest known stars in the Milky Way Star name Solar radius (R ☉) Method [a] Notes Orbit of Saturn: 2,047 – 2,049.9 [8] [b] Reported for reference: WOH G64 (For comparison) 1,540 [c] ± 77 [9] L/T eff: Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Possibly the largest known star. [9] [10] [14] [11] Theoretical limit of star size (Milky ...

6. 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. [1] 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 .

7. Earliest building blocks of the Milky Way discovered near its ...

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   Astronomers using the Gaia space telescope have located two ancient streams of stars that helped the Milky Way galaxy grow and evolve more than 12 billion years ago.

8. Discovery and exploration of the Solar System - Wikipedia

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   He also aimed his telescope to the faint strip of the Milky Way, and he found it resolves into countless white star-like spots, presumably farther stars themselves. [39] The term "Solar System" entered the English language by 1704, when John Locke used it to refer to the Sun, planets, and comets as a whole. [40]

9. Great Rift (astronomy) - Wikipedia

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   The Great Rift covers one third of the Milky Way, and is flanked by strips of numerous stars, such as the Cygnus Star Cloud. [2] West of the Cepheus Clouds , the Funnel cloud / Le Gentil 3 and the bordering North America Nebula , the Great Rift starts with the Northern Coalsack at the constellation of Cygnus , where it is known as the Cygnus ...