Group NameMeaning The Star Gazers A reference to people who love to look at the stars The Milky Way Masters A reference to our galaxy, the Milky Way The Cosmic Crusaders A reference to people who explore the cosmos The Astro-Nots A play on “astronauts”...
Did You Know That of the Billions of Stars in the Milky Way, Only 449 Stars Have Officially Approved Names? Since prehistoric times, cultures and civilizations all around the world have given their own unique names to the brightest and most prominent stars in th...
There are around 200-400 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy (so you also have billions of choices for baby names if we get to name them all) There are billions of other galaxies in space, making the total number of stars virtually impossible to count Scientists estimate that there are...
It is the Alpha star in Carina.•Capella - Latin for "she-goat", Capella is the Alpha star in Auriga. Dimmer stars nearby were referred to as Capella's kids.•Castor - The dimmer of the two main stars in Gemini, Castor is Greek for "beaver". Castor is also Alpha Geminorum.•...
Most of them refer to the stars’ positions in constellations. For instance, Deneb, Deneb Algedi, Denebola and Aldhanab, all derived from the Arabic word for “tail,” mark the tails of the celestial Swan (Cygnus), Sea Goat (Capricornus), Lion (Leo), and Crane (Grus, or formerly the...
Exoplanets are planets around stars other than our Sun, thousands of which have been discovered in recent years. For example, the names Xamidimura and Pipirima were approved for components of the bright binary star μ1 and μ2 Scorpii in the constellation of Scorpius, respectively. Xamidimura...
Quasars are regions at the centers of galaxies with a far higher luminosity, which isn't produced by stars. They're among the most luminous and powerful objects in the universe, as they put out thousands of times more energy than our entire Milky Way, which contains between 200 and 400 ...
Any one of the spaces in the Milky Way which are very black, owing to the nearly complete absence of stars; esp., the large space near the Southern Cross sometimes called the Black Magellanic Cloud. doodlesack noun (n.) The Scotch bagpipe. drawback noun (n.) A loss of advantage, or...
The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope. The term has recently been used for remote clusters of stars. noun (n.)...
Zhurong was revered as the earliest fire god in traditional Chinese culture. Tianwen, meaning heavenly questions, is a long poem written by poet Qu Yuan during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) in China, in which he e...