Name the ExoWorlds: Contest begins to allow the public to name exoplanets and stars

18 Delphini B and PSR 1257+12 are hardly planetary names that trip off the tongue. A contest has therefore begun that provides not only the first opportunity for the public to name exoplanets – planets outside our solar system that orbit a star rather than our sun - but also, for the first time in centuries, to give names to stars.

Source: The Independent - Science - August 12, 2015 Category: Science Tags: Science Source Type: news