How are stars named?
Also, I'm a Star Wars fan and I wanna give specific names to stars in the franchise, not just simply name it after the planet. Hoth has a star named "Hoth" etc.
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Iridflare say: Most stars aren't named - they're catalogued. That means they're just given some sort of reference number. The star names in common use go back for millenia, though there are unofficial exceptions such as "Tabby's star" and a few official ones like "Barnard's star". Names are approved by the IAU.
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William say: Best Answer was already chosen but I think to say simply that the IAU names them is leaving out the most interesting part.

Indeed the IAU has adopted an official list of Star Names, which itself was determined by a major league baseball player named George Davis, Jr. Davis was an amateur Arab scholar who made a list of Star Names adopted from Arabic in an effort to arrive at an accurate transliteration

Most star names are adopted from Arabic sources, and of these, they can be divided into two categories: native, from Arab mythology among different tribes, and then Greco-Arabic, which are Arabic translations from Ptolemy's star catalog in the Almagest. Most Greco-Arabic star names were derived from the Persian Astronomer Al-Sufi, who included Ptolemy's constellations and star catalog in his Book of the Fixed Stars.

There is a long, complex and convoluted history of modern Star Names, particularly through the astronomical literature from Medieval times to the present. It includes many transliterations, adoptions and distortions, as well as a few star names derived from complete gibberish and misinterpretation.

The German scholar Paul Kunitzsch has done more than any other individual to examine the origins and history of modern Arabic-derived Star Names; his most influential work is Arabische Sternnamen in Europa. (Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1959).
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MARK say: The naming of astronomical objects is regulated by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). As their Web site explains some commercial enterprises may offer you the opportunity to name a star on payment of a fee. Basically, this is fraud because whatever fee you pay, to whomever, your choice of star name will have no official recognition. So do not get caught up in any such scam.

Of course ‘Star Wars’ is fiction. If you want to know how IAU goes about naming stars there is an interesting article on their Web site: https://www.iau.org/public/themes/naming...
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Robert say: NASA names them.
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CarolOklaNola say: Stars are named in several different ways . the IAU (International Astronomical Union) names stars , not planets, after the constellation. And and the apparent mag itusethe stars planets are given a small letter in addition to to the stars name.

For planets and .moons, not exoplabets, the IAU opens proposals for suggestions , then votes on names, That is how all often Pluto's moons were named. Pluto was named by an 11 year old year old. Her uncle was a professional astronomer who ran an observatory. Stars are not named after planets.

Star Wars is fiction. Hoth is not a real planet.

As the second answer says, most stars are catalogued. The bright stars were named. Many years earlier sometimes a thousand years or more earlier. There are something like 5 or more catalogues
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