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Can you (re)name that heavenly body?

Asked by rebbel (35553points) July 22nd, 2010

Astronomers have discovered a star.
It, apparently, is huge: ”...some 10 million times brighter than that of our own Sun.” and “Estimates give it a mass of more than 250 times that of our own Sun.” from here
We can safely say that astronomers are very bright people.
But not very creative when it comes to naming things…
It is called: R136a1
Isn’t that fantastic? not
We can do better then that, surely?!
So, care to come up with a real good, catchy, galactic name for it?

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Zaku's avatar

Big Brighty

Bigglebortz

Oozwowza

Zaku (30607points)“Great Answer” (2points) Flag as…
LuckyGuy's avatar

Eddington’s Folly

Eddington was the researcher who posited the theory that a star could not exceed 150x the mass off the sun..

LuckyGuy (43880points)“Great Answer” (7points) Flag as…
rebbel's avatar

Fantastic answer, @worriedguy.
And knowledgeable too!

rebbel (35553points)“Great Answer” (0points) Flag as…
LuckyGuy's avatar

@rebbel Aw shucks. Twern’t nuthin’. Everybody knows Eddington
Thanks.

LuckyGuy (43880points)“Great Answer” (0points) Flag as…
lloydbird's avatar

GOD

Well, the local office at least.

lloydbird (8740points)“Great Answer” (2points) Flag as…
ucme's avatar

Angelina Joli…...oh sorry wrong body, err ooh I know. Jaffa.

ucme (50047points)“Great Answer” (3points) Flag as…
whatthefluther's avatar

Great Ball of Fire

See ya….Gary/wtf

whatthefluther (13830points)“Great Answer” (2points) Flag as…
Dutchess_III's avatar

Grand Sun….. No… Great Grand Sun. No….. GREAT, GREAT GREAT Grand Sun. :)

Dutchess_III (47126points)“Great Answer” (1points) Flag as…
Pandora's avatar

Godzilla

Pandora (32436points)“Great Answer” (1points) Flag as…
marinelife's avatar

Gigas or Gigantus.

marinelife (62485points)“Great Answer” (1points) Flag as…
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Pamela Anderson

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