Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning is an 1899 book by Richard Hinckley Allen, that discusses the names of stars, constellations, and their histories.[not...

Star Names, which has been publishing a "List of IAU-approved Star Names" since 2016. As of June 2025, the list included a total of 505 proper names of...

stellar designations and names, including catalogue designations, current and historical proper names, and foreign language names. Only a tiny minority of...

astronomers adopted some of these as proper names for stars, and added names from traditional Arabic star lore, which they recorded in various Zij treatises...

Chinese star names (Chinese: 星名, xīng míng) are named according to ancient Chinese astronomy and astrology. The sky is divided into star mansions (星宿,...

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...

Star is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Darren Star (born 1961), American producer, director and writer Jeffree Star...

asterisms, and many of the brightest stars have proper names. Astronomers have assembled star catalogues that identify the known stars and provide standardized...

Union (IAU) established a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) in May 2016 to catalog and standardize proper names for stars for the international astronomical...

Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin of July 2016...

batches of names approved by the WGSN, which included Sirius for the star α Canis Majoris A. It is now so entered in the IAU Catalog of Star Names. Sirius...

Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin of July 2016...

Egyptians recorded the names of only a few identifiable constellations and a list of thirty-six decans that were used as a star clock. The Egyptians called...

Paul; Smart, Tim, eds. (2006). A Dictionary of Modern star Names: A short guide to 254 star names and their derivations (2nd rev. ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts:...

English name Demon Star was taken from the Arabic name. In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to...

Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalogue and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN approved the name Barnard's Star for this star on 1 February...

been approved by the Working Group on Star Names of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Popular names which have not been approved by the IAU...

Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalogue and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN approved the name Atlas for this star on 21 August 2016...

PMID 17076089. "History of the Constellations and Star Names – D.4: Sumerian constellations and star names?". Gary D. Thompson. 21 April 2015. Archived from...

ISBN 9781133307273. Retrieved August 27, 2022. Allen, Richard Hinckley (1899). The Star-Names and Their Meanings. New York City, New York: G.E. Stechert. Astronomical...

(ISBN 978-1931559386). "LacusCurtius • Allen's Star Names — Hydra". penelope.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-08. Ridpath, Ian. Star Tales Hydra. Retrieved 2018-12-28...

batches of names approved by the WGSN, which included Antares for the star α Scorpii A. It is now so entered in the IAU Catalog of Star Names. Antares is...

two batches of names approved by the WGSN, which included Betelgeuse for this star. It is now so entered in the IAU Catalog of Star Names. Betelgeuse and...

Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the series of the same name and became a worldwide...

Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin of July 2016...

designated names to the visible stars systematically, roughly more than one thousand years before Johann Bayer did it in a similar way. Basically, every star is...

This is the list of the star names in the constellation Draco. Thuban: ＜ (ar) ثعبان thu'bān, serpent, the last part of Ra's al-Thu'bān. (See β Dra.) Adib:...

Pisces List of star names See Kunitzsch & Smart (2006) p.4. See Kunitzsch & Smart (2006) p.4. Allen, Richard Hinckley (1963). Star Names: Their Lore and...

Babylonian star catalogues entered Greek astronomy in the 4th century BC, via Eudoxus of Cnidus and others. A few of the constellation names in use in...

family names but rather a chain of names. This system remains in use throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds. The ism (اسم) is the given name, first name, or...