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In contemporary astronomy, 88 constellations are recognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). [1] Each constellation is a region of the sky bordered by arcs of right ascension and declination, together covering the entire celestial sphere.
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The IAU is the international astronomical organisation that brings together more than 10 000 professional astronomers from almost 100 countries. Its mission is to promote and safeguard the science of astronomy in all its aspects through international cooperation. The IAU also serves as the internationally recognised authority for assigning designat...
Dr. Eric Mamajek WGSN Chair Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech, USA Tel: +1 818-354-2153 Cell: +1 818-393-4950 (Fax) Email: IAUWGSN@gmail.com Lars Lindberg Christensen IAU Press Officer Garching bei München, Germany Tel: +49 89 320 06 761 Cell: +49 173 38 72 621 Email: lars@eso.org
With the high number of investigated stars, new nomenclatures emerged, many of them relying on the constellation names. Therefore, one of the IAU’s first tasks after its formation was to define an internationally agreed set of constellations.
WGSN has now established a new catalogue of IAU star names, with the first set of 227 approved names published on the IAU website.
IAU approval comes mostly from its Working Group on Star Names, which has been publishing a "List of IAU-approved Star Names" since 2016. As of April 2022, the list included a total of 451 proper names of stars.
Nov 28, 2016 · It has now “officially” approved 227 star names, many of them the same names that stargazers have used all along. Via IAU
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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...
