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I think you're missing something. It's because you're a terrestrial lifeform who has got into the habit of intuitively measuring things according to their internal volume and apparent weight
If you also consider "mass" as a factor in the selection of eponyms, then you can start to include much more interesting astronomical phenomena like pulsars and quantum singularities and perhaps even dark matter! USS Dark Matter Nebula. In the Trek universe there is no reason why these objects would not have common names alongside their designations as they would be very important navigational hazards to FTL starships and their existence and locations would be widely known among both navigators and scientists.
Building on the Nebula names theme, you can even have names of protostars. Perhaps use those for a second class of slightly smaller vessels, or as names of tenders for the larger nebula named ships.
Red giant stars? Plenty of those around and plenty have already got names.
Minutiaman is right. This is Trek. Make them up. In that context, use my suggestions to assign made-up names to particular phenomena for consistency and added interest.
When you consider the vast number of possibilities there's really no need to rehash the tired old game of naming ships after people!
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I DO have a USS Dark Matter Nebula, actually.
In any event, this class is almost done & then it's on to the great structural support member that is the Niagara-class.
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For what it's worth, one of my first-flight Nebulas (Nebul�...?) I named the USS Sword of Orion, a little ha-ha due to the fact that most of the "stars" in Orion's sword are nebul�.
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Ganked.
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How about the USS Beeblebrox?
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