Talk:Barnard's Star

Irrelevant paragraph

Noticed following attempt of hilarity in the first section of the article:

Barnard's Star is also known for it's most interior rocky planet which had a thriving civilisation entirely composed of St. Bernard dogs almost one and a half thousand years ago. Under pressure from the lack of the letter a on the planet, they were forced to change their name from Barnard to Bernard to make a saving of almost 50% on the aforementioned letter. The inhabitants of this planet sent a mission to colonize Earth, but upon arrival, they found that human civilization was far more advanced then they first realised and they have been entirely subsumed by human society and are now little more than pets.

Needless to say, the comedy talent of the writer of the above is clearly wasted on Wikipedia. Paragraph removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.13.83.241 (talk) 20:17, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Yes ... the comedian is almost ready for amateur night at the Kwik-Pik. Sigh. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.111.48.50 (talk) 19:54, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Planet discovery

Sourced and reffed in the lead. This is a tidy page that already references the (non-)discovery of planets. Lets work in the discovery in a way that flows. Dontreadalone (talk) 22:17, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

At the Europlanet Science Congress, 2024, in Berlin, Germany, I think they have just announced the discovery of some new "Planet candidates orbiting the Barnard's star seen with ESPRESSO", on the VLT telescope. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.43.224.143 (talk) 07:55, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Merger proposal

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was merge. SevenSpheres (talk) 18:44, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

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The planet candidate Barnard's Star b was refuted in 2021, with a 2022 study further supporting this result. While an argument could be made against merging as this was a nearby planet candidate that received some attention, like Alpha Centauri Bb, the planet article is fairly short and all information can easily be covered in this article. See also e.g. the refuted planets of Kapteyn's Star that were merged. SevenSpheres (talk) 23:48, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

• Support: at best just a candidate, at worst nothing at all. Doesn't merit a separate article despite considerable popular coverage (being basically just dozens of repeats of a press release about the original discovery). Lithopsian (talk) 09:45, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
• Support in principle. I'm not clear that all the extra bloat is needed; the current content seems sufficient. Certainly the planet infobox doesn't need to be included. Praemonitus (talk) 14:13, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Proposed move

As far as I can see professional astronomy sources refer to "Barnard's star." This agrees with our MoS, even though I find it a bit odd. Therefore I propose we move the article to Barnard's star and update the name across the wiki. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 22:42, 16 December 2024 (UTC).

Note: The article was moved from there to here in 2010. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 22:44, 16 December 2024 (UTC).

Oppose for two reasons:

• Consistency: Other articles on similarly named stars are capitalized as proper names, such as Teegarden's Star (I see that article had an RM where this was discussed).
• Official usage: The IAU list of star names includes Barnard's Star in capitalized form.

SevenSpheres (talk) 22:57, 16 December 2024 (UTC)