Answer:Tycho's Star, name given to the supernova later designated SN 1572, after Tycho Brahe, though he did not have priority of discovery.
Van Biesbroeck's Star is VB 10, a very small, faint, red dwarf named after George Van Biesbroeck, who discovered it in 1944 – the smallest and faintest star then known.
Van Maanen's Star is a white dwarf, discovered in 1917 by Adriaan van Maanen, only the second white dwarf discovered.
Wachmann's Flare Star is V371 Orionis.
Walborn's Star is a Wolf-Rayet Star in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in Dorado.
Warren and Penfold's (WP) Star is the optical counterpart of X-3 in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Wild's Supernova is SN 1966j in NGC 3198 (in Ursa Major).
Wischnjewsky's Supernova in Fornax A.
Zealey-Lee Supernova in the nucleus of an anonymous galaxy in Grus.
(Note that and are the names of novels, not actual stars.)
Covertly named stars
Some stars were given names that were disguised names of individuals, which names subsequently appeared in star catalogues and thus into more general usage.
The earliest noted example was Sualocin and Rotanev, which names have now been approved by the IAU WGSN (see above). More recently, during the Apollo program, it was common for astronauts to be trained in celestial navigation, and to use a list of naked-eye stars which to take bearings. As a practical joke, Gus Grissom gave names to three stars on this list, which were references to the three Apollo 1 crew:
Navi for the star Gamma Cassiopeiae and which is
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