Comets and shooting stars At a time when specialized terminology for describing stars did not yet exist in the West, the monumental Records of the Grand Historiographer, authored by Sima Qian during the Han dynasty, included a chapter listing more than 1000 stars visible to the naked eye and identifying each one by name.
在西方尚無術語描述星星的年代，漢朝《史記・天官書》提到的一千多顆星星都已有了「學名」。