2023-05-07 06:27:09
The only body responsible for giving stars their names is the International Astronomical Union
From time to time, posts or videos spread on social media, of one of them who decided to address the responsible authorities to buy the name of a star for someone he loves, and that he now has an official paper proving his ownership of the star as well as specifying its location in the sky where it can be determined simply by telescope.
Star in the name of the beloved
The idea of someone buying the name of a star in the sky is not new, but it became widely known after the release of the American movie “A Walk to Remember” in 2002, where the hero in one of the scenes presented a star to his beloved, and after that platforms for selling names appeared. stars, and with the spread of the Internet it has become more widespread.
But the truth is that this is completely wrong, as the only body responsible for giving stars their names is the International Astronomical Union (IAU). And in a statement posted on his platform The International Astronomical Union clearly says that it does not sell the names of the stars, and completely distances itself from any business related to the sale of the names of the stars or any of the other bodies of the sky, as they belong to all mankind.
And the federation adds, in its statement, that those names sold are only a document, but they are not of official validity at all, and that the same rules apply to buying names of star clusters, galaxies or any other features in the solar system, or areas on the moon or any other object in the group. solar.
But where do the stars get their names originally?
In fact, the method of giving names to the stars has changed with time, as the names of the stars were related to myths that people created in the past about those stars, for example the star “Aldebaran” is derived from an Arab legend about a boy who fell in love with a girl named Al-Thuraya, but she refused All his proposals for marriage, he continued to manage (i.e. go after her), hence the name Al-Dabran, which is recorded with the same pronunciation in contemporary astronomical atlases.
Other stars such as the “band” (Alnitak) are also derived from the “band” that girls wear, which is of Arab origin, and the reality More than two-thirds of the traditional stars in the night sky take a name of Arabic originThe rest is mainly Latin.
But several centuries ago, with the advent of telescopes, the number of known stars increased in intensity, and it was not possible to name them with something related to ancient myths, so astronomers used several new methods of naming, the most famous of which is “Bayer label(Bayer designation), invented by the German astronomer Johann Bayer at the beginning of the 17th century, and appeared for the first time in his astronomical atlas called “Uranometria”.
This method arranges the stars within the constellations (constellations) according to their brightness, so that the brightest star gets the first Latin letter (alpha), and the second brightest star gets the letter (beta) and so on, and accordingly, for example, the brightest star of the constellation Leo is “alpha the lion,” and the third brightest The star of the constellation Ursa Major is the “Gamma Ursa Major”.
With the development of astronomical telescopes, completely new and complex methods and names emerged, specific to physicists and astronomers, in which many letters and numbers overlapped.
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