List of astronomical objects named after people

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This is a list of astronomical objects named after people. While topological features on Solar System bodies — such as craters, mountains, and valleys — are often named after famous or historical individuals, many stars and deep-sky objects are named after the individual(s) who discovered or otherwise studied it.

This list does not include astronomical objects named after mythological or fictional characters.

Clusters and groups

Stars

Galaxies

Galaxy clusters and superclusters

Comets

Comet names are often given for the astronomer(s) who discovered it, but they can also be for scientists who gave significant contributions towards their study.

Interstellar comets

  • 2I/Borisov is the first observed interstellar comet, named after Gennadiy Borisov

Great comets

Periodic comets

Craters

Main page: Astronomy:List of craters in the Solar System

Galaxies

In most cases, the named individual was the person who discovered the galaxy, who first brought attention to it, or who first studied it scientifically. Many of the brighter galaxies visible from the Northern Hemisphere have Messier numbers, named after Charles Messier. There are a few other comprehensive catalogs that assign the cataloguer's name to galaxies. For instance, Markarian galaxies, named after Benjamin Markarian, are galaxies with excess blue and ultraviolet emission;[5] galaxies in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies are assigned an Arp number after Halton Arp who produced the catalog; etc. Objects in these catalogs are excluded below, except in cases where they carry the name of an additional person.

  • Ambartsumian's Knot, a small tidal dwarf galaxy located in NGC 3561 in Ursa Major, named after Viktor Ambartsumian
  • Barnard's Galaxy (NGC 6822) is located in Sagittarius, named after E. E. Barnard.
  • Bedin I, a dwarf spheroidal galaxy
  • Burçin's Galaxy is a ring galaxy in Crater, named after Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil
  • Bode's Galaxy is Messier 81, a spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.
  • Coddington's Nebula is dwarf spiral galaxy in Ursa Major, named after Edwin Foster Coddington.
  • Donatiello I is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 10.7 million light-years, close to NGC404. It is named after the Italian amateur astronomer Giuseppe Donatiello. Donatiello discovered three more NGC 253 satellite galaxies in 2020, named Donatiello II, Donatiello III and Donatiello IV [A&A 652, A48 (2021)].
  • Hoag's Object is a ring galaxy in Serpens, named after Arthur Hoag.
  • Erik Holmberg described multiple galaxies that have since been named after him:
    • Holmberg II is a dwarf irregular galaxy about 9.8 million light-years away in the M81 Group
    • Holmberg IX is a dwarf irregular galaxy and a satellite galaxy of Messier 81.
    • Holmberg 15A is a supergiant elliptical galaxy and the central dominant galaxy of the Abell 85 galaxy cluster in the constellation Cetus.
  • Huchra's Lens is a lensed galaxy.
  • Kinman's Dwarf is a low-metallicity blue compact dwarf galaxy in Aquarius.
  • Komossa's object is a galaxy in which the supermassive black hole disrupted a star.
  • Lindsay-Shapley Ring is a ring galaxy in Volans
  • Maffei 1 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia and the closest giant elliptical galaxy to the Milky Way.
  • Maffei 2 is a spiral galaxy about 10 million light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia.
  • Malin 1 is one of the largest spiral galaxies known and is the archetypal Low Surface Brightness galaxy
  • Mayall's Object
  • Willman 1 is an ultra low-mass dwarf galaxy.
  • The Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte galaxy is an irregular galaxy on the outer edges of the Local Group. It is in the constellation Cetus.
  • I Zwicky 18 is a dwarf irregular galaxy.

Minor planets and Solar System features

Main page: Astronomy:List of minor planets named after people

Nebulae

Stars

Main page: Astronomy:Stars named after people

Other astronomical features

  • Arp's loop is a ring-like structure located near Messier 81 in Ursa Major, named after Halton Arp.[8]
  • Baade's Window is an area of sky with low amounts of cosmic dust in Sagittarius, named after Walter Baade.
  • Becklin–Neugebauer Object is located in the Orion molecular cloud complex and only visible in infrared, named after Eric Becklin and Gerry Neugebauer.
  • Fourcade-Figueroa Object is a potential galaxy remnant associated with NGC 5128 in Centaurus, named after Carlos Raúl Fourcade and Edgardo Javier Figueroa.[9]
  • Gabriela Mistral Nebula is the combination of open cluster NGC 3324 and emission nebula IC 2599 in Carina, named after the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral.
  • Gomez's Hamburger (IRAS 18059-3211) is a potentially young star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk in Sagittarius, named after Arturo Gómez.
  • Hanny's Voorwerp is a quasar ionization echo near IC 2497 in Leo Minor, named after Hanny van Arkel.
  • Helmi stream is a stellar stream of the Milky Way galaxy, named after Amina Helmi.
  • Hubble volume,  a spherical region of the observable universe surrounding an observer beyond which objects recede from that observer at a rate greater than the speed of light due to the expansion of the universe, named after Edwin Hubble.
  • KBC Void is an immense empty region of space, named after Ryan Keenan, Amy Barger, and Lennox Cowie.
  • Mayall's Object is the result of a galaxy collision in Ursa Major, named after Nicholas Mayall.
  • 9Spitch is a gravitationally lensed system of two galaxies in Cetus. It is named after Zbigniew "Zbish" Chetnik. The term Spitch comes from Chetnik's nickname Zbish, after a BBC producer misheard his nickname.
  • Oort cloud, named for Jan Oort
  • Thackeray's Globules are a set of Bok globules in IC 2944 in Centaurus, named after A. David Thackeray.

See also

  • List of eponyms
  • List of astronomical catalogues
  • List of astronomical topics
  • Lists of etymologies
  • List of asteroids
  • List of periodic comets
  • List of non-periodic comets

References

  1. "Asterisms - Napoleon's Hat, Picot 1 | Houston Astronomical Society". https://www.astronomyhouston.org/newsletters/guidestar/asterisms-napoleons-hat-picot-1. 
  2. "SOCO - Sentinel of the Caprock Observatory". http://cat-star.org/SOCO/IMAGERY/picot1_description.html. 
  3. T. W. Webb, Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, Volume 2: The Stars, page 145 (Wreath of stars)
  4. "Burbidge's Chain". https://www.astronomy-mall.com/Adventures.In.Deep.Space/burbidge.htm. 
  5. B. E. Markarian (1967), A catalog of Markarian galaxies, Astrofizika 3, 55
  6. "DOCdb - Baxendell's Nebula". http://www.docdb.net/show_object.php?id=ngc_7088. 
  7. Steinicke, Wolfgang (2010). Observing and Cataloguing Nebulae and Star Clusters: From Herschel to Dreyer's New General Catalogue. Cambridge University Press. p. 384. ISBN 9781139490108. https://archive.org/details/observingcatalog00stei. 
  8. Sollima, A.; Paz, A. Gil de; Martinez-Delgado, D.; Gabany, R. J.; Gallego-Laborda, J. J.; Hallas, T. (1 June 2010). "A multi-wavelength analysis of M 81: insight on the nature of Arp's loop". Astronomy & Astrophysics 516: A83. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201014085. Bibcode2010A&A...516A..83S. 
  9. Dottori, Horacio A.; Fourcade, Carlos R. (1973). "The object Fourcade Figueroa, a shred associated with NGC 5128?". Astronomy and Astrophysics 23: 405–409. Bibcode1973A&A....23..405D. http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1973A%26A....23..405D/0000405.000.html. Retrieved 16 April 2021. 

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