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Category:Stars with proper names

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This category associates tightly to the list of traditional star names, and looser to star designations.

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Alpha Centauri [videos]

Alpha Centauri is the closest star system and closest planetary system to the Solar System at 4.37 light-years from the Sun. It is a triple star system, consisting of three stars: α Centauri A, α …

The two bright stars at the lower right are Alpha (right) and Beta Centauri (left, above antenna). A line drawn through them points to the four bright stars of the Southern Cross, just to the right of the dome of La Silla Observatory.

View of Alpha Centauri from the Digitized Sky Survey 2

40 Eridani [videos]

40 Eridani, also designated Omicron² Eridani, is a triple star system in the constellation of Eridanus. Based on parallax measurements taken during the Hipparcos mission, it is less than 17 light-years from the Sun. — The primary …

A collection of egg shells, from which Keid derives its name.

Comparison of the habitable zones of the Sun and 40 Eridani A (here labeled Vulcan, after the fictional planet from Star Trek)

Algol [videos]

Algol, designated Beta Persei, known colloquially as the Demon Star, is a bright multiple star in the constellation of Perseus and one of the first non-nova variable stars to be discovered. — Algol is a three-star system, consisting of Beta Persei Aa1, Aa2 …

Image: Algol triple star system imaged with the CHARA interferometer

Image: Perseus Hevelius

Alpha Coronae Borealis [videos]

Alpha Coronae Borealis, also named Alphecca, is an eclipsing binary star in the constellation of Corona Borealis. It is located about 75 light years from the Sun and contains two main sequence stars, one class A and one class G. — Properties …

α Coronae Borealis is the brightest star in the constellation Corona Borealis

α Coronae Borealis in optical light

Altair [videos]

Altair, also designated α Aquilae, is the brightest star in the constellation of Aquila and the twelfth brightest star in the night sky. It is currently in …

Altair

Direct image of Altair

Albireo [videos]

Albireo is the traditional name for the double star also designated Beta Cygni, although the International Astronomical Union now regards the name as only applying to the brightest component. Although designated'beta', it is fainter than Gamma Cygni, Delta …

Albireo A and B

Alcyone (star) [videos]

Alcyone, designated η Tauri, is a multiple star system in the constellation of Taurus. Approximately 440 light years from the Sun, it is the brightest star in the Pleiades open cluster, which is a young cluster, around 100 million years old. There are a …

Image: Pleiades large

Alnitak [videos]

Alnitak, also designated ζ Orionis and 50 Orionis, is a triple star system several hundred parsecs from the Sun in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the three main stars of Orion's Belt along with Alnilam and …

Image: Ngc 2024 2mass

Alpha Cassiopeiae [videos]

Alpha Cassiopeiae, also named Schedar, is a second magnitude star in the constellation of Cassiopeia. Though listed as the "alpha star" by Johann Bayer, α Cas's visual brightness closely rivals the'beta' star in the constellation (Beta …

Cassiopeia starfield showing α Cas, the orange giant, in relation to the other stars in the constellation.

Alphard [videos]

Alphard, also designated Alpha Hydrae is the brightest star in the constellation of Hydra. It is a single giant star, cooler than the sun but larger and more luminous. It is about 177 light years away. — Nomenclature — α Hydrae (Latinised to Alpha …

The western portion of Hydra, with Alphard the brightest star near the centre

Antares [videos]

Antares, also designated α Scorpii, is on average the fifteenth-brightest star in the night sky, and the brightest object in the constellation of Scorpius. Distinctly reddish when viewed with the naked eye, Antares is a slow irregular …

Antares near the Sun on 30 November. This date may vary between 30 November and 2 December every year

Apep (star system) [videos]

Apep is the nickname for a triple star system containing a Wolf–Rayet binary and a hot supergiant, located in the constellation of Norma. Named after the serpent deity from Egyptian mythology, the star system is surrounded by a vast complex of stellar wind and cosmic dust thrown into space by the …

Image: The triple star system 2XMM J160050.7–514245 (Apep)

Francis I of France [videos]

Francis I was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547. He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy. He succeeded his cousin and father-in-law Louis XII, who died without a son. Francis …

Portrait by Jean Clouet, c. 1530

Francis I painted in 1515

Francis I receiving the last breath of Leonardo da Vinci in 1519, by Ingres, painted in 1818.

Francis's Château de Chambord displays a distinct French Renaissance architecture.

Jon Hamm [videos]

Jonathan Daniel Hamm is an American actor best known for playing advertising executive Don Draper for the AMC television drama series Mad Men. — For much of the mid-1990s, he lived in Los Angeles, making appearances in television series Providence, The Division, What …

Hamm at PaleyFest in 2014

Hamm in November 2008

Hamm, with former partner Jennifer Westfeldt, at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards on September 21, 2008

Hamm on the set of The Town in September 2009

Hugh Jackman [videos]

Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, and producer. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in a variety of film genres. He is known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film series which he holds the Guinness World Record of …

Jackman at the world premiere of Logan at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival in February 2017

Hugh Jackman at the Sydney premiere for Real Steel in September 2011

Jackman at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con

Jackman at the Japanese premiere of his 2017 film, The Greatest Showman

Hundred Years' War [videos]

The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against the French House of Valois, over the right to rule the Kingdom of France. Each side drew many allies into the war. It was one of the most notable conflicts …

Homage of Edward I of England (kneeling) to Philip IV of France (seated), 1286. As Duke of Aquitaine, Edward was also a vassal to the French King. Illumination by Jean Fouquet from the Grandes Chroniques de France in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.

Battle of Sluys from a BNF manuscript of Froissart's Chronicles, Bruges, c.1470.

Battle of Crécy, 1346, from the Grandes Chroniques de France. British Library, London.

Edward III counting the dead on the battlefield of Crécy

Helsinki [videos]

Helsinki is the capital and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of 650,058. The city's urban area …

Clockwise from top: Helsinki Cathedral, view of central Helsinki, Sanoma building and Kiasma, Helsinki city centre at night, beaches at Aurinkolahti, Parliament House and Suomenlinna.

Central Helsinki in 1820 before rebuilding. Illustration by Carl Ludvig Engel.

Construction of Suomenlinna began in the 18th century.

Parts of Helsinki and Espoo seen from the SPOT satellite

Enzo Ferrari (automobile) [videos]

The Enzo Ferrari is a 12 cylinder mid-engine sports car named after the company's founder, Enzo Ferrari. It was developed in 2002 using Formula One technology, such as a carbon-fibre body, F1-style electrohydraulic shift transmission …

Enzo Ferrari

The F140B V12 engine

The Ferrari Enzo used the F1 transmission and had a gear shift indicator on the steering wheel telling the driver when to change gears

The Ferrari Enzo used carbon ceramic brake discs, a first for a Ferrari road car

Tom Brady [videos]

Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr. is an American football quarterback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League. He has won six Super Bowls, the most of any football player ever, and due to his numerous accomplishments, records, and accolades, he is …

Brady in 2017

Brady at Michigan Stadium in 2016

Brady during Super Bowl XXXIX

Brady on the sideline at Giants Stadium with teammates Randy Moss and Jabar Gaffney, after throwing for his record-breaking 50th passing touchdown of the 2007 season

Bugatti [videos]

Automobiles Ettore Bugatti was a French car manufacturer of high-performance automobiles, founded in 1909 in the then-German city of Molsheim, Alsace by the Italian-born industrial designer Ettore Bugatti. The cars were known for their design beauty and for their many race victories. Famous …

Ettore Bugatti, 1932

Bugatti Type 13 Brescia Sport-Racing, 1922

Bugatti 100P Racing Plane

Bugatti Railcar

United States twenty-dollar bill [videos]

The United States twenty-dollar bill is a denomination of U.S. currency. The seventh U.S. President, Andrew Jackson, has been featured on the front side of the bill since 1928; the White House is featured on the reverse. — As of December 2013, the average circulation life of a $20 …

1863 $20 Legal Tender note

1880 $20 Legal Tender depicting Alexander Hamilton

Series 1905 $20 gold certificate

1914 $20 Federal Reserve Note.

Imperial crown [videos]

An Imperial Crown is a crown used for the coronation of emperors. — Design — Crowns in Europe during the medieval period varied in design: — An open crown is one which consists basically of a golden circlet elaborately worked and decorated with precious stones or enamels.... The medieval French …

The British Imperial State Crown viewed from the side with the front facing left (the Black Prince's Ruby, and the Cullinan II are just visible in profile).

Emperor Maximilian I wearing a crown with mitre

Image: Museum of Anatolian Civilizations 118

Image: Probus Coin

Diana, Princess of Wales [videos]

Diana, Princess of Wales, was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, and the mother of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex. — Diana was born into the Spencer …

The Prince and Princess of Wales after the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of York in 1986

Charles and Diana in Woombye, 1983

Diana chatting with US First Lady Hillary Clinton following a landmines campaign fund-raiser, June 1997

East entrance to the Pont de l'Alma tunnel

Punic Wars [videos]

The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC. At the time, they were some of the largest wars that had ever taken place. The term Punic comes from the Latin word Punicus, meaning "Carthaginian", with reference to the Carthaginians' …

Depiction of Hannibal and his army crossing the Alps during the Second Punic War

A Carthaginian shekel, dated 237–227 BC, depicting the Punic god Melqart (equivalent of Hercules/Heracles), most likely with the features of Hamilcar Barca, father of Hannibal Barca; on the reverse is a man riding an elephant

Hannibal's feat in crossing the Alps with war elephants, though many of them did not survive, passed into European legend: detail of a fresco by Jacopo Ripanda, c. 1510, Capitoline Museums, Rome

Bust of Scipio Africanus from the Villa of the Papyri

Luxembourg [videos]

Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a small landlocked country in western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France to the south …

Charles IV, the 14th-century Holy Roman Emperor and king of Bohemia from the House of Luxembourg

Photograph of the fortress of Luxembourg prior to demolition in 1867

View of the Grund along Alzette river in the historical heart of Luxembourg City.

Frontier with German Empire's Alsace-Lorraine, from 1871 to 1918

San Francisco [videos]

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. San Francisco is the 13th-most populous city in the United States, and the fourth-most populous in …

San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge from Marin Headlands

Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores)

Port of San Francisco in 1851

The Palace of Fine Arts at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition

Musée National d'Art Moderne [videos]

The Musée National d'Art Moderne is the national museum for modern art of France. It is located in Paris and is housed in the Centre Pompidou in the 4th arrondissement of the city. It is among the most visited art …

Centre Georges-Pompidou from Notre-Dame de Paris, 2011

Image: Pompidou

Image: Henri Matisse, 1916 17, Auguste Pellerin II, oil on canvas, 150.2 x 96.2 cm, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Image: Jean Metzinger, 1911, Etude pour Le Goûter, graphite and ink on paper, 19 x 15 cm, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Duesenberg [videos]

Duesenberg Motors Company was an American manufacturer of race cars and luxury automobiles. It was founded by brothers August and Frederick Duesenberg in 1913 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where they built engines and race cars. The brothers moved their operations to …

Duesenberg family with Fred and August in the middle, ca. 1886

1923 Duesenberg Model A touring car at the Louwman Museum

1930 J Walker La Grande Torpedo Phaeton

Model J engine

Denzel Washington [videos]

Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is an American actor, director, and producer. He has received two Golden Globe awards, one Tony Award, and two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for the historical war drama film Glory and Best Actor for his role as corrupt detective …

Washington in February 2000

Washington at the 62nd Academy Awards, at which he won Best Supporting Actor for the film Glory

Washington after a performance of Julius Caesar in May 2005

Washington's signature in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre

Hope Diamond [videos]

The Hope Diamond is one of the most famous jewels in the world, with ownership records dating back almost four centuries. Its much-admired rare blue color is due to trace amounts of boron atoms. Weighing 45.52 carats, its exceptional size has revealed new findings about the formation of gemstones …

The Hope Diamond in the National Museum of Natural History

The Hope Diamond in 1974

Hope Diamond - There is speculation that George's wife, Caroline of Brunswick, may have helped procure the diamond for the British monarch, but records are lacking.

George IV of the United Kingdom

There is speculation that George's wife, Caroline of Brunswick, may have helped procure the diamond for the British monarch, but records are lacking.

Nantes [videos]

Nantes is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, 50 km from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth-largest in France, with a population of 303,382 in Nantes and a …

The confluence of the Erdre and the Loire (where Nantes was founded) in an 1890s photochrom. The river channels in the picture were diverted and filled in during the 1920s and subsequently replaced with roads.

Section of the Roman city wall

Nantes Cathedral, rebuilt in the Gothic style beginning in the 15th century

Typical 18th-century façades in Nantes

Battle of Zama [videos]

The Battle of Zama—fought in 202 BC near Zama —marked the end of the Second Punic War. A Roman army led by Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, with crucial support from Numidian leader Masinissa, defeated the Carthaginian army led by Hannibal. — After defeating Carthaginian and …

The Battle of Zama by Henri-Paul Motte, 1890.

The Battle of Zama by Cornelis Cort, 1567.

Movements of the opposing armies before the battle

Antikythera wreck [videos]

The Antikythera wreck is a Roman-era shipwreck dating from the second quarter of the first century BC.It was discovered by sponge divers off Point Glyphadia on the Greek island of Antikythera in 1900. — The wreck yielded numerous statues, coins, and other artifacts dating back to the fourth century …

The Antikythera mechanism (Fragment A – front)

Philitas of Cos, the philosopher's head

Hennessey Venom GT [videos]

The Hennessey Venom GT is a high performance sports car manufactured by Texas-based Hennessey Performance Engineering. The Venom GT is based on the Lotus Elise/Exige. — Speed records — On January 21, 2013, the Venom GT set a Guinness World Record for the fastest road legal car from 0–186 mph …

Image: Hennessey Venom GT (16040233465)

Jessica Szohr [videos]

Jessica Karen Szohr is an American actress. She started her screen career appearing on television shows such as My Wife and Kids, Joan of Arcadia, What About Brian and CSI: Miami. She gained recognition in 2007 with her breakthrough role as …

Image: Jessica Szohr at 2015 TCA

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