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Can you (re)name that heavenly body?

Asked by rebbel (35549points) July 22nd, 2010

Astronomers have discovered a star.
It, apparently, is huge: ”...some 10 million times brighter than that of our own Sun.” and “Estimates give it a mass of more than 250 times that of our own Sun.” from here
We can safely say that astronomers are very bright people.
But not very creative when it comes to naming things…
It is called: R136a1
Isn’t that fantastic? not
We can do better then that, surely?!
So, care to come up with a real good, catchy, galactic name for it?

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