NameExoWorlds

NameExoWorlds (also known as IAU NameExoWorlds) is the name of various projects managed by the International Astronomical Union (I.A.U.) to encourage names to be submitted for astronomical objects, which would later be considered for official adoption by the organization.

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History

The first such project (NameExoWorlds I), in 2015, regarded the naming of stars and exoplanets.^[1] 573,242 votes were submitted by members by the time the contest closed on October 31, 2015, and the names of 31 exoplanets and 14 stars were selected from these.^[2] Many of the names chosen were based on world history, mythology and literature.^[3] In June 2019, another such project (NameExoWorlds II), in celebration of the organization's hundredth anniversary, in a project officially called IAU100 NameExoWorlds,^[4]^[5] welcomed countries of the world to submit names for exoplanets and their host stars.^[6]^[7] A star with an exoplanet was assigned to each country, and members of the public submitted names for them.

In August 2022, the third NameExoWorlds project was announced, which gave names to 20 exoplanets and their host stars, all of which are targets for observation by the James Webb Space Telescope.^[8] The names were announced in June 2023.^[9]

References

^ Overbye, Dennis (2 December 2016). "Twinkle, Twinkle Little [Insert Name Here]". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
^ Pasachoff, Jay M.; Filippenko, Alex (11 July 2019). The Cosmos: Astronomy in the New Millennium. Cambridge University Press. pp. 658–659. ISBN 978-1-108-43138-5.
^ Jones, Brian (19 October 2019). Yearbook of Astronomy 2020. Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1-5267-5328-1.
^ Staff (2019). "IAU100 Name ExoWorlds - name ExoWorlds II". International Astronomical Union. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
^ Staff (6 June 2019). "Name an Exoplanet - IAU100 NameExoWorlds gives every country in the world the opportunity to name an exoplanet and its host star". International Astronomical Union. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
^ Overbye, Dennis (14 June 2019). "So Long, Exoplanet HD 17156b. Hello ... Sauron?". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
^ Kaufman, Marc (7 June 2019). "A Grand Global Competition to Name 100 ExoWorlds". ManyWorlds.Space. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
^ "NameExoWorlds 2022". nameexoworlds.iau.org. IAU. 8 August 2022. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
^ "Thai names chosen for distant stars". Bangkok Post. 9 June 2023. Retrieved 17 October 2023.

External links

Official WebSite; Naming rules; Voting statistics; 2015 winners; 2019 contest
"SIMBAD Astronomical Database". Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
"NStars database". NASA. Archived from the original on 1 November 2005. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
"ARICNS". Astronomisches Rechen-Institut. Archived from the original on 14 October 2005. Retrieved 15 June 2019.

Stars

List

Formation

Evolution

Classification

Early Late Main sequence O B A F G K M Subdwarf O B WR OB Subgiant Giant Blue Red Yellow Bright giant Supergiant Blue Red Yellow Hypergiant Yellow Carbon S CN CH White dwarf Chemically peculiar Am Ap/Bp CEMP HgMn He-weak Barium Lambda Boötis Lead Technetium Be Shell B[e] Helium Extreme Blue straggler
Remnants	Compact star Parker's star White dwarf Helium planet Neutron Radio-quiet Pulsar Binary X-ray Magnetar Stellar black hole X-ray binary Burster SGR
Hypothetical	Blue dwarf Green Black dwarf Exotic Boson Electroweak Strange Preon Planck Dark Dark-energy Quark Q Black Gravastar Quasi-star Thorne–Żytkow object Iron Blitzar White hole

Nucleosynthesis

Structure

Properties

Star systems

Earth-centric
observations

Lists

Exoplanets

Main topics

Sizes
and
types

Terrestrial	Carbon planet Coreless planet Desert planet Dwarf planet Eggshell planet Hycean planet Ice planet Iron planet Lava planet Ocean world Mega-Earth Sub-Earth Super-Earth
Gaseous	Eccentric Jupiter Mini-Neptune (Gas dwarf) Helium planet Hot Jupiter Hot Neptune Gas giant Ice giant Super-Jupiter Super-Neptune Super-puff Ultra-hot Jupiter Ultra-hot Neptune
Other types	Blanet Brown dwarf Chthonian planet Circumbinary planet Circumtriple planet Disrupted planet Double planet Ecumenopolis Eyeball planet Giant planet Mesoplanet Planemo Planet/Brown dwarf boundary Planetesimal Protoplanet Pulsar planet Sub-brown dwarf Sub-Neptune Toroidal planet Ultra-cool dwarf Ultra-short period planet (USP)