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Nov 24, 2016 · WGSN has now established a new catalogue of IAU star names, with the first set of 227 approved names published on the IAU website. Composed of an international group of astronomers, the Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) is an initiative that stemmed from the IAU Division C (Education, Outreach, and Heritage).
During the Triennium, WGSN approved additional names for the IAU Catalog of Star Names: Geminga for the pulsar PSR B0633+17 in Gemini, and Rana for δ Eri (HR 1136). The WGSN also recognizes the 20 new star names added via the NameExoWorlds 2022
Among the stars with newly approved names that have recently been reported to host extrasolar planet candidates are: Algieba (Gamma-1 Leonis), Hamal (Alpha Arietis), and Muscida (Omicron Ursae...
Nov 26, 2016 · The 227 names that have been released include 209 recently approved names by the WGSN, plus the 18 stars that the IAU Executive Committee Working Group for Public Naming of Planets and...
The WGSN explicitly recognized the names of exoplanets and their host stars approved by the Executive Committee Working Group Public Naming of Planets and Planetary Satellites, including the names of stars adopted during the 2015 NameExoWorlds campaign.
Nov 29, 2016 · WGSN has now established a new catalogue of IAU star names, with the first set of 227 approved names published on the IAU website.
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Dec 12, 2016 · The WGSN currently has 227 star names published on the IAU site under its Naming Stars page, many of which have been long-used by stargazers. In fact, the catalogue includes 18 star names that were approved by the ‘IAU Executive Committee Working Group for Public Naming of Planets and Planetary Satellites’ in December 2015, including 5 ...
