Last night I borrowed the binoculars that one of my sons got for Christmas and looked at the moon and stars - the first time I've done that for quite a few years. Wanting to find out more I was looking at I've been wandering through some astronomy related web pages, mostly the International Astronimical Union (IAU) and found that:
- don't pay to have a star named after you - it's a con
- there appears to be no single master database of stars as you might expect, though there are conventions on naming
- there are loads of ways you can take part in astronomy and all sort of other fields science, from analysing things, to letting your computer do work when it would otherwise be idle
- the IAU are working on the naming of exoplanets (those outside the solar system)
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