{"id":220,"date":"2026-02-24T17:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/?p=220"},"modified":"2026-02-24T18:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:18:26","slug":"the-international-astronomical-union-issued-a-new-statement-regarding-the-star-name-of-working-group-of-susanne-m-hoffmann-guest-scientist-at-the-freie-universitaet-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/2026\/02\/24\/the-international-astronomical-union-issued-a-new-statement-regarding-the-star-name-of-working-group-of-susanne-m-hoffmann-guest-scientist-at-the-freie-universitaet-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"The International Astronomical Union issued a new statement regarding the Working Group on Star Names of Susanne M. Hoffmann"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Among the 59 new names recently announced by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) are two Babylonian (Udkadua, Uridim), one ancient Egyptian (Apdu), four ancient Greek (Deltoton, Phyllon-Kissinou, Hydor, Kamelos), ten Latin, six Arabic and two Sanskrit (Shatabhisha, Apamvatsa). All names can be found in the<a href=\"https:\/\/exopla.net\/star-names\/modern-iau-star-names\/\"> IAU Catalog of Star Names (CSN)<\/a> and are explained in the IAU All Skies Encyclopaedia (ASE): <a href=\"https:\/\/ase.exopla.net\/\">https:\/\/ase.exopla.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iau.org\/IAU\/News\/Ann2026\/New-Star-Names-2026.aspx\">full announcement with name list&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IAU has been the arbiter of star names and planetary nomenclature since its inception in 1919, later recognised by the United Nations. This naming process is carried out by its working groups. The current Chair of the Working Group on Star Names resides at Institut f\u00fcr Wissensgeschichte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/files\/2026\/02\/IAU-WGSN-2024-25-1-002.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/files\/2026\/02\/IAU-WGSN-2024-25-1-002.png 600w, https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/files\/2026\/02\/IAU-WGSN-2024-25-1-002-300x186.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the 59 new names recently announced by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) are two Babylonian (Udkadua, Uridim), one ancient Egyptian (Apdu), four ancient Greek (Deltoton, Phyllon-Kissinou, Hydor, Kamelos), ten Latin, six Arabic and two Sanskrit (Shatabhisha, Apamvatsa). All names can be found in the IAU Catalog of Star Names (CSN) and are explained in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/2026\/02\/24\/the-international-astronomical-union-issued-a-new-statement-regarding-the-star-name-of-working-group-of-susanne-m-hoffmann-guest-scientist-at-the-freie-universitaet-berlin\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eThe International Astronomical Union issued a new statement regarding the Working Group on Star Names of Susanne M. Hoffmann\u201c<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/knowtheancients\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}