Dust-Ball

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Authors: Susanne M Hoffmann, Youla Azkarrula


dust nebula around V927 Per in DSS, 2MASS and WISE data [1]
Dust-Ball
Asterism Info
Native
Dust-Ball
Translation
Dust-Ball
Position (2000)
Right ascension56.21102545
Declination32.31846274
Area0 sq. deg.
Stars
Bright stars1
Bayer/Flamsteed
stars
1
Stars brighter than 3.00m0
Brightest starDust-Ball (11.22m)
Taxonomy
category
of asterism
IAU-Star Name
IAU-
constellations
Per

Dust-Ball is a modern star name adopted by the International Astronomical Union in the IAU-Catalog of Star Names (IAU-CSN). Its origin is English as the lingua franca of modern astrophysics. It is the name of the star V927 Per in constellation Perseus.


Concordance, Etymology, History

The cluster IC 348 has many young stellar and substellar objects which have been studied in high-energy wavebands for decades. Yet recent observations in infrered showed a dusty nebula around the variable star V927 Per which led to its naming.

The object around the star MASS J03445064+3219067 has the identifier: IC 0348:[PZ2001] 187

Mythology

no mythology.

IAU Working Group on Star Names

The name was adopted by the IAU WGSN in 2026, as it has been in popular use among astrophysicists and listed in SIMBAD already.


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