✨ IAU-WGSN Star Names 2025 ✨
In 2025, the IAU-WGSN adopted 40 new star names, up from 19 in 2024. These names reflect rich cultural roots—from Indigenous, Arabic, Chinese, and classical traditions. Mapped using Gaia DR2. 🌌
#IAU #WGSN #StarNames #Astronomy #GaiaDR2

#GaiaDR2 confirms that the star HV 2112 could be a Thorne–Żytkow object (a neutron star inside a regular star)? https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10192 by McMillan & Church

This is the Andromeda galaxy as seen by @ESAGaia #GaiaDR2 http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/04/Andromeda_galaxy

#Gaia beobachtet seit 2013 die Eigenschaften von Himmelskörpern.✨ Details zur Erfassung unserer multidimensionalen #Milchstraße in #GaiaDR3 und die Unterschiede zu #GaiaDR2 gibt es morgen, am 14. Juni um 07:30 MSZ live auf #ESATV 📺:...

#Gaia has been collecting #BigData in space since 2013. ✨ Details on the creation of the most accurate and complete multi-dimensional map of the Milky Way and the differences compared to #GaiaDR2, tomorrow 14 June at 07:30 CEST on #ESAWebTV 📺:...

I propose ​a possible #FermiParadox answer:

​Life is common enough to exist.

Intelligence is rare enough to feel alone.

​🟢=Microbes
🟠=Intelligence

#SETI
#Astrobiology
#Technosignatures
#GalacticHabitableZone
#GaiaData
#GaiaDR2
#DESI
#Cosmology
#Ai
#Intelligence