A worldwide star-naming challenge
Mar 26, 2020
2 minutes
When an exoplanet is found, there’s a convention for naming it. The name of the star gets a letter ‘a’ put after it and then each planet found in orbit around the star gets the next available lower-case letter in the alphabet. So for example, 55 Cancri b, is the name of
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