If not, how do you name one?
2007-12-23 10:05:24 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
most of the stars we haven't even discovered yet. but of those that are discovered, most of them just have names that are just numbers and letters. Very few actually have names like sirius, polaris, procyon, beatleguess, antares, aldaberan, rigel, arctures, spica, vega, etc.
2007-12-23 10:22:39 · answer #1 · answered by brandon 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A few bright ones are named. The names were all agreed on hundreds or even thousands of years ago. A few million have catalog numbers from various modern astronomical surveys. Most stars have many different catalog numbers, because they appear in many different catalogs. After all, if an astronomer starts compiling a catalog, he is looking at the same stars as all the other astronomers. His catalog may become widely used, and the numbers in it widely used, but they are not really "official" in any way. Astronomers don't usually name stars because there are just too many. Some are named if they have something very special about them. Barnard's star is called that because an astronomer named Barnard found it was moving very fast. Millions of others are nameless points of light in photographs, never having been cataloged. Trillions more have never been seen or even photographed. There is really no procedure to mane a star.
2007-12-23 12:25:05 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Almost all the stars visible to the naked eye are named in catalogs, but most of them are just designations like NGC1004 or something similar. Some of the other stars have similar designations, but the vast majority are not named.
Members of the public cannot simply "name" a star, officially. There is a whole organization that deals with stellar nomenclature (names). The rules are pretty strict depending on the object in question.
2007-12-23 10:35:59 · answer #3 · answered by someone else 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All of them? No. All the ones you can see? Yes - with some sort of name, or numbers. Can you name one? No. The only group that can legally name stars is the International Astronomical Union, and they don't name them after people, even if you discovered it yourself. The only things you can get named after you are comets and planetary nebulae.
Don't bother paying someone like the Star Registry to name a star after you either. Not only is it not legal (for 'entertainment purposes only'), but they've sold every star you can see without a research-grade telescope.
2007-12-23 11:21:09 · answer #4 · answered by eri 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Only the ones we have seen. Stars have been named since antiquity. What was known then were groups of Stars called"Constellations". Some how there was Biblical Prohesies associated with these Constellations. The interesting part about them is that they where 12 Constellations and they bore the same Number of the twelve Tribes of Israel.
One Constellation is called "Virgin",another is called "Lion",etc..
Many of the names of Stars known today have Latin names Greek names,and arabic names but not limited to only these. names.
2007-12-23 10:58:20 · answer #5 · answered by goring 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not at all. Some have proper names, like Algol, Alula Australis and Zubaneschemale, others have letters like Alpha Centauri, others catalogue numbers like Gliese 581, Wolf 359 or HDE 226868. There is no systematic system for naming them and this is unlikely to change in the near future, with the exception of supernovae, which may be given labels as a result of being bright enough to be detected or visible when they previously weren't.
2007-12-23 11:00:44 · answer #6 · answered by grayure 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of the 5000 or so our naked eyes (unaided by Telescopes) see, only a small part were named. There are others fainter, but available in telescope viewing & some of them are named each after the Astronomer who worked on that star (or linked) like 'Barnard Star'.
2016-09-28 22:21:16 · answer #7 · answered by poornakumar b 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as what we have named , the answer would be no.. as far as the Creator is concerned he has already named them all.... Since we have no way of knowing what he has named them i don't think he would consider it wrong if we do .... ; )
As far as nameing them i would just google Star names and see what comes up
2007-12-23 10:20:54 · answer #8 · answered by Noah's Ark 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i do not know how you name one but i know that not all of them are named
there are stars far far away that we already dont know so there must be a lot unknown stars and you probably have to ask the astronomy centers to name one
2007-12-23 10:14:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No....impossible
Only those that can be seen by us, or are near enough to be seen, have a name.....However, most of the stars we know, are perhaps (we dont know), a tiny, very tiny amount of the real TOTAL....
So, we have named just a bunch, for the sake of having a name of them......
Naming one of them???....our Sun in the solar system...
another:''' alpha centauri....
2007-12-23 10:12:50 · answer #10 · answered by Sehr_Klug 50 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋