Do any individual stars in the Andromeda Galaxy have names?

Even if astronomers can pick out individual stars in Andromeda over a period of time, they're likely to give them numbers, not names. That's true of most stars even in our own galaxy. Only a few larger or nearer stars have names. Some are named after the constellation in which they are viewed. read more

Even if astronomers can pick out individual stars in Andromeda over a period of time, they're likely to give them numbers, not names. That's true of most stars even in our own galaxy. Only a few larger or nearer stars have names. read more

In fact, stars are so easily resolved in Andromeda and the galaxy itself is so huge on the sky that it's difficult to see the rest of the galaxy when you focus on a particular patch of stars (the forest for the trees, as it were). read more

Closeup of a large region of the Andromeda galaxy's disk, containing hundreds of open star clusters (identifiable as bright blue sparkles). Image credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B.F. Williams, L.C. Johnson (University of Washington), the PHAT team, and R. Gendler. read more