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[[File:PeonyStar Barniske+2008.png|thumb|Peony Star in Barniske et al. (2008).<ref name=":0">Barniske, A., Oskinova, L. M., and Hamann, W.-R., “Two extremely luminous WN stars in the Galactic center with circumstellar emission from dust and gas”, <nowiki><i>Astronomy and Astrophysics</i></nowiki>, vol. 486, no. 3, EDP, pp. 971–984, 2008. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:200809568.</ref>]]
Peony Star is a modern star name adopted by the International Astronomical Union in the IAU-Catalog of Star Names (IAU-CSN). Its origin is English in modern astrophysics. It is the name of the star WR 102ka in constellation [[Sagittarius]].

 
==Concordance, Etymology, History==
WR 102ka is a wolf-rayet star below visibility limit, so there are no cultural names. 

Barniske, Oskinova and Hamann (2008)<ref name=":0" /> note in their abstract <blockquote>
"A peony-shaped nebula around WR102ka is resolved at 24 μm by the Spitzer MIPS camera. We attribute the formation of this IR-bright nebula to the recent evolutionary history of WR102ka"</blockquote>

==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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== Reference ==
* [[References|References (general)]]
* [[References (Medieval and Early Modern)|References (early modern)]] 
* Ian Ridpath's website ([http://ianridpath.com/startales Star Tales] )

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