Etymology

Gomez's Hamburger

Today it means: A young A0III-type star with an apparent magnitude of +14.4 in the constellation Sagittarius at a distance of 250 ±50 parsecs from Earth. Full definition →

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The story

Named for its discoverer, Chilean astronomer and astrophotographer Arturo Gómez, and for its resemblance to a hamburger (its protoplanetary disk the dark “burger” and the far sparser starlight-illuminated dust on either side the light “buns”) when viewed edge-on from Earth.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.