The Name Game Astronomy

Choose Ninja, Cervantes or Rosalind as names for exoplanets

The public can vote on proposed monikers for 20 exoplanets

screenshot from NameExoWorlds

VOTE EARLY, VOTE OFTEN  Mnesileüs and Kashani are just two possible names for beta Geminorum b (left). Epsilon Eridani b (right) could be renamed Stafar31 or Sufijunior. Both worlds are illustrated in a screenshot from NameExoWorlds.

NASA, ESA, G. Bacon/STScI;JPL-Caltech/NASA; IAU

By Christopher Crockett

- More than 2 years ago

Roughly 2,000 known worlds orbit diverse locales throughout the Milky Way, and there’s one thing the exoplanets have in common: None of them have names.