<p>WHL is an initialism of &quot;Wen Han Liu&quot;, the names of three astronomers and the authors of a catalog <a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJS..199...34W/abstract" rel="nofollow noreferrer">A Catalog of 132,684 Clusters of Galaxies Identified from Sloan Digital Sky Survey III</a></p>
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<li>Zhonglue Wen (文中略)  (Z.L. Wen)</li>
<li>Jinlin Han (韩金林) (J.L. Han)</li>
<li>Liu () (F.S Liu)</li>
</ul>
<p>[if anyone can find Liu's full details please feel free to edit them in)</p>
<p>I can't find a definitive source for the meaning of &quot;LS&quot;, but I speculate that it means &quot;lensed star&quot; or &quot;Lensed source&quot;.</p>

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<p>Earendel star's official name includes the abbreviations WHL and LS, as do some other very far-off objects....</p>
<p>What do they stand for?</p>

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What do the letters WHL and LS stand for in the description and name of Earendel star, and other distant objects?
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# What do the letters WHL and LS stand for in the description and name of Earendel star, and other distant objects?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-04-11)

Earendel star's official name includes the abbreviations WHL and LS, as do some other very far-off objects....

What do they stand for?

**Tags:** observational-astronomy, astrophysics, space-telescope

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### Answer by username_1 on 2022-04-11. Score: 4 | Accepted answer

WHL is an initialism of "Wen Han Liu", the names of three astronomers and the authors of a catalog [A Catalog of 132,684 Clusters of Galaxies Identified from Sloan Digital Sky Survey III](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJS..199...34W/abstract)

* Zhonglue Wen (文中略) (Z.L. Wen)
* Jinlin Han (韩金林) (J.L. Han)
* Liu () (F.S Liu)

[if anyone can find Liu's full details please feel free to edit them in)

I can't find a definitive source for the meaning of "LS", but I speculate that it means "lensed star" or "Lensed source".


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