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The easiest way to get a space object named after you is by discovering a comet, which will automatically take your last name.

Deep space

■ Most deep-space objects, such as galaxies, do not have names but are given a number according to how they appear in a catalog. If they are in morę than one catalog, they have morę than one number.

■ Charles Messier produced his catalog in the late 1700s, when hunting for comets. It includes star clusters, galaxies, and nebulae. Its objects are designated as M with a number.

■ The New General Catalogue of 7,840 deep-sky objects was produced in 1888 and objects there have an NGC number. The Andromeda Galaxy is both NGC 224 and M31.

■ Recent catalogues include objects such as radio galaxies. Entries in the 1959 Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources have designations such as 3C 273.

The number of the first asteroid to be discovered,

Ceres, in 1801

8

The number of constellations named after birds; they include the peacock

110

The number of objects in Charles Messier's list and given M numbers; M1 to M110

173

The number of named volcanic sites on Jupiter’s moon, lo

945,592,683

The number of stars listed in the Hubble Space Telescope's Guide Star Catalog

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Ali except one of the surface features on Venus are named after women. The exception is the Maxwell Montes mountain rangę, which is named after the British physicist James Clerk Maxwell.

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Some of Uranus’s moons are named after characters in the plays of the playwright William Shakespeare. Two of them, Oberon and Titania, are the king and the queen of the fairies.

Planetary names

Mercury—messenger of the Roman gods

Venus—Roman goddess of love

Mars—Roman god of war Jupiter—king of the Roman gods

Saturn—father of Jupiter

Uranus—god of the sky and father of Saturn

Neptune—Roman god of the sea

Many stars and galaxies are given nicknames by astronomers. It is often pretty obvious that their names come from the way that they look, but it depends on what you can see.

Whirlpool galaxy

Bowtie Nebula (also known as Boomerang Nebula)

Horsehead Nebula

jewel Box star cluster

The Mask (a pair of galaxies)

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