List of astronomical topics
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- 1 Ceres
- 1C
- 1P/Halley
- 1st High Energy Astrophysics Observatory
- 2 Pallas
- 2M1207
- 2M1207b
- 2MASS
- 2P/Encke
- 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey
- 2C
- 3 Juno
- 3C
- 3C9
- 3C48
- 3C58
- 3C75
- 3C191
- 3C273
- 3D/Biela
- 3.67 m Advanced Electro Optical System Telescope
- 4 Vesta
- 4C
- 4C Array
- 5 Astraea
- 5C
- 6 Hebe
- 6C
- 7C
- 8C
- 9C
- 9P/Tempel
- 10 Hygiea
- 12P/Pons-Brooks
- 14 Herculis
- 15 Eunomia
- 16 Cygni
- 16 Psyche
- 20 Massalia
- 21 Lutetia
- 21P/Giacobini-Zinner
- 24 Themis
- 25 Phocaea
- 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann
- 31 Euphrosyne
- 34 Tauri
- 40 Eridani
- 43 Ariadne
- 44 Nysa
- 45 Eugenia
- 47 Ursae Majoris
- 48 Doris
- 51 Pegasi
- 51 Pegasi B
- 51 Pegasi b
- 52 Europa
- 55 Cancri
- 55P/Tempel-Tuttle
- 61 Cygni
- 61 Cygni A
- 61 Cygni B
- 65 Cybele
- 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
- 70 Virginis
- 71 Niobe
- 81P/Wild
- 87 Sylvia
- 90 Antiope
- 92 Undina
- 93 Minerva
- 94 Aurora
- 95 Arethusa
- 106 Dione
- 107 Camilla
- 110 Lydia
- 153 Hilda
- 154 Bertha
- 221 Eos
- 243 Ida
- 253 Mathilde
- 279 Thule
- 323 Brucia
- 324 Bamberga
- 342 Endymion
- 433 Eros
- 434 Hungaria
- 451 Patientia
- 511 Davida
- 588 Achilles
- 624 Hektor
- 674 Rachele
- 704 Interamnia
- 944 Hidalgo
- 951 Gaspra
- 1036 Ganymed
- 1221 Amor
- 1566 Icarus
- 1620 Geographos
- 1685 Toro
- 1862 Apollo
- 2001 QR322
- 2003 EL61
- 2003 UB313
- 2004 AS1
- 2005 FY9
- 2060 Chiron
- 2062 Aten
- 2063 Bacchus
- 3001 Michelangelo
- 3018 Godiva
- 3200 Phaethon
- 3467 Bernheim
- 3753 Cruithne
- 3834 Zappafrank
- 4179 Toutatis
- 4544 Xanthus
- 4593 Reipurth
- 4769 Castalia
- 5145 Pholus
- 5261 Eureka
- 5381 Sekhmet
- 5535 Annefrank
- 7066 Nessus
- 11169 Alkon
- 18610 Arthurdent
- 28978 Ixion
- 50000 Quaoar
- 90377 Sedna
- 90482 Orcus
- 99942 Apophis
A
- A New Theory of Magnetic Storms
- A-type asteroid
- Aaronson, Marc
- Abdulmelik, Chalid Ben
- Abell, George Ogden
- Aberration in optical systems
- Aberration of light
- Absolute Visual Magnitude
- Absolute date
- Absolute magnitude
- Accelerating universe
- Accretion disc
- Accretion disk
- Achernar
- Achondrite
- Achromatic doublet
- Achromatic lens
- Acrux
- Active Galactic Nuclei
- Active galaxy
- Active optics
- Adams, John Couch
- Adaptive optics
- Adara
- Adelard of Bath
- Adhara
- Adler Planetarium
- Adrastea
- Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics
- Aether
- Aether theory
- Afterglow
- AGASA
- Age of the Earth
- Age of the Universe
- AIPS
- Airglow
- Airy disc
- Airy, George
- Aitken, Robert
- Al Sufi
- Al Sufi, 'Abd Al-Rahman
- Al-Batani
- Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ḵwārizmī
- Albategnius
- Albedo
- Albert Abraham Michelson
- Albiorix (moon)
- Albireo
- Alcor
- Aldebaran
- Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne
- Alfonsine tables
- Alfonso X of Castile
- Alfven universe
- Alfvén, Hannes Olof Gösta
- Algieba
- Algol
- ALH84001
- Alioth
- Alkaid
- Allegheny Observatory
- Almach
- Almagest
- Alnilam
- Alnitak
- Alniyat
- Alpha Andromedae
- Alpha Centauri
- Alpha Centauri A
- Alpha Centauri B
- Alpha Persei
- Alpha process
- Alpher-Bethe-Gamow theory
- Alpheratz
- Alphonsine tables
- Altair
- Altazimuth mount
- Altitude
- Aludra
- Alura
- Amalthea (moon)
- Amateur astronomy
- Amateur telescope making
- American Astronomical Society
- American Nebula
- Amor asteroid
- Amort, Eusebius
- Analemma
- Ananke (moon)
- Ananke group
- Anaximander
- Andromeda (constellation)
- Andromeda Galaxy
- Andronicus of Cyrrhus
- Anglo-Australian Telescope
- Angular diameter
- Angular diameter distance
- Angular size redshift relation
- Angular frequency
- Angular measurement
- Angular resolution
- Annibale de Gasparis
- Annie Jump Cannon
- Anomalistic month
- Anomalous cosmic ray
- Anomalous phenomenon
- Anomaly (astronomy)
- Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory
- Antares
- Antenna (electronics)
- Anthropic principle
- Antlia
- Antonín Mrkos
- Apastron
- Aperture
- Aperture Masking Interferometry
- Aperture synthesis
- Aphelion
- Apoapsis
- Apogee
- Apollo
- Apollo 11
- Apollo 17
- Apollo asteroid
- Apollo program
- Apparent Visual Magnitude
- Apparent magnitude
- Apparent motion
- Apparent solar day
- Apsides
- Apsis
- Apus
- Aquarius
- Aquila (constellation)
- Arago, Dominique
- Arago, François Jean Dominique
- Aratus
- Archaeoastronomy
- Archimedes
- Arcminute
- Arcminute Microkelvin Imager
- Arcsecond
- Arcturus
- Arecibo Observatory
- Arecibo radio telescope
- Argo Navis
- Argument of Perihelion
- Argument of the perihelion
- Ariane 5
- Ariel
- Aries
- Aristarchos 2.3 m Telescope Project
- Aristarchus of Samos
- Aristotle
- Arjuna
- Armillary sphere
- Arno Penzias
- Arp, Halton
- Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors
- Arrhenius, Svante
- Artemova, Ioulia Vladimirovna
- Aryabhata
- Asterism (astronomy)
- Asteroid
- Asteroid belt
- Asteroid deflection strategies
- Asteroid moon
- Asteroid spectral types
- Asteroseismology
- Astigmatism
- ASTRO-E
- Astrobiology
- Astrochemistry
- Astrodynamics
- Astrolabe
- Astrometric binary
- Astrometry
- Astronautics
- Astronomer
- Astronomer Royal
- Astronomers
- Astronomical
- Astronomical Journal
- Astronomical Julian calendar
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Astronomical Unit
- Astronomical aberration
- Astronomical body
- Astronomical catalogue
- Astronomical conjunction
- Astronomical distance
- Astronomical interferometer
- Astronomical naming conventions
- Astronomical object
- Astronomical opposition
- Astronomical seeing
- Astronomical society
- Astronomical spectroscopy
- Astronomical transit
- Astronomical unit
- Astronomical year numbering
- Astronomy
- Astronomy and astrophysics
- Astrophotography
- Astrophysical Journal
- Astrophysicist
- Astrophysics
- Astrophysics Data System
- Asymptotic Giant Branch
- Atacama Large Millimeter Array
- Aten
- Aten asteroid
- Athena (Mars missions in disambiguation)
- Atkinson, Robert
- Atlas (moon)
- Atmosphere
- Atria
- Aura
- Auriga (constellation)
- Auroral light
- Australia Telescope Compact Array
- Automated Patrol Telescope
- Autumnal equinox
- Auva
- Avg. Orbital Speed
- Avior
- Axial tilt
- Axis of rotation
- Azimuth
B
- B-type asteroid
- Baade, Walter
- Background (astronomy)
- Background radiation
- Bacon, Roger
- Bahá'í calendar
- Bahcall, John
- Bainbridge, John
- Baldwin, John
- Balthasar Behem Codex
- Banneker, Benjamin
- Barnard's star
- Barnard, Edward Emerson
- Barred spiral galaxy
- Barringer Crater
- Barsoom
- Barycenter
- Baryogenesis
- Baryonic matter
- Bayer designation
- Bayer, Johann
- Be X-ray binaries
- Be star
- Becrux
- Bedford Catalogue
- Behenian fixed stars
- Bekenstein, Jacob
- Belinda (moon)
- Bell, Jocelyn
- Bellatrix
- BeppoSAX
- Berlin Observatory
- Bernard Lovell
- Bernoulli, Jakob
- Bernoulli, Johann
- Bessel, Friedrich
- Beta Centauri
- Beta Pictoris
- Betelgeuse
- Beyond the standard Big Bang model
- Bianca (moon)
- Big Bang
- Big Bang nucleosynthesis
- Big Bear Solar Observatory
- Big Crunch
- Big Dipper
- Big Rip
- Big bang
- Binary asteroid
- Binary star
- Binary system
- Binoculars
- BL Lac object
- Black body
- Black dwarf
- Black hole
- Black hole thermodynamics
- Black holes
- Blazar
- Bliss, Nathaniel
- Blue giant
- Blue straggler
- Boötes
- Bode, Johann Elert
- Bohr model
- Bohr, Niels
- Bolometer
- Bolometric magnitude
- Bolyai, Janos
- Bondi, Hermann
- Bond, William Cranch
- Bonner Durchmusterung
- Boomerang nebula
- Boss, Lewis
- Boulder Sunspot Number
- Boötes
- Bradley, James
- Brahe, Tycho
- Brane
- Brane cosmology
- Brera Observatory
- Brett J. Gladman
- Bright nebula
- Brightness
- Broad Band X-ray Telescope
- Brocchi's Cluster
- Broglie, Louis-Victor de
- Brown dwarf
- Brown, Michael E.
- Brown, Robert Hanbury
- Bruce Medal
- Brudzewski, Albert
- Brussels Observatory
- BTA-6
- Bulge (astronomy)
- Burbidge, Geoffrey
- Burbidge, Margaret
- Bureau des Longitudes
- Butterfly Cluster
C
- C-type asteroid
- Caelum
- Calendar Round
- Caliban (moon)
- Callisto (moon)
- Caltech Submillimeter Observatory
- Calypso (moon)
- Cambridge Interferometer
- Cambridge Low Frequency Synthesis Telescope
- Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope
- Camelopardalis
- Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
- Canadian Arrow
- Canadian Space Agency
- Cancer (constellation)
- Canes Venatici
- Canis Major
- Canis Major (dwarf galaxy)
- Canis Minor
- Cannon, Annie
- Canopus
- Canopus (star)
- Capella (star)
- Capricorn
- Capricornus
- Carbon star
- Cardinal directions
- Carina (constellation)
- Carlsberg Meridian Telescope
- Carme (moon)
- Carme group
- Carpo (moon)
- Carrington, Richard
- Cartesian coordinate system
- Cartier, Pierre
- Cartography
- Cartwheel Galaxy
- Cassegrain Reflector
- Cassegrain telescope
- Cassegrain, Guillaume
- Cassini probe
- Cassini, Giovanni Domenico
- Cassini-Huygens
- Cassini-Huygens Mission
- Cassiopeia (constellation)
- Castor
- Castor (star)
- Cataclysmic variable star
- Catadioptric sensor
- Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies
- Cavalieri, Bonaventura
- Cavendish Astrophysics Group
- Ceiba
- Celestial body
- Celestial body atmosphere
- Celestial body's atmosphere
- Celestial coordinate system
- Celestial dynamics
- Celestial equator
- Celestial mechanics
- Celestial navigation
- Celestial pole
- Celestial sphere
- Celsius, Anders
- Celtes, Conrad
- Centaur
- Centaur
- Centaur rocket
- Centaurus
- Cepheid variable
- Cepheus
- Cepheus (constellation)
- Cerro Tololo telescope
- Cetus
- CfA 1.2 m Millimeter-Wave Telescope
- Chad Trujillo
- Chamaeleon
- Chandler wobble
- Chandra X-ray Observatory
- Chandra X-ray Telescope
- Chandrasekhar limit
- Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
- CHARA array
- Charles T. Kowal
- Charon (moon)
- Chatelet, Emilie du
- Cherenkov Array at Themis
- Chinese constellation
- Chiron
- Chondrite
- Chondrule
- Christie, William
- Chromatic aberration
- Chromosphere
- Chrétien, Henri
- Circinus
- Circle of confusion
- Circle of latitude
- Circumpolar star
- Circumstellar disk
- Civil Year
- Clark, Alvan
- Classical mechanics
- Classical physics
- Clover telescope array and Project
- Closure phase
- CNES
- Cnidus
- CNO cycle
- Coalsack Nebula
- COBE
- Cold dark matter
- Collinder catalogue
- Collinder, Per
- Color index
- Color temperature
- Columba (constellation)
- Coma (cometary)
- Coma (optics)
- Coma (cometary)
- Coma Berenices
- Coma aberration
- Coma galaxy cluster
- Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy
- Comet
- Comet Encke
- Comet Halley
- Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
- Comet Tempel-Tuttle
- Comoving distance
- Compact object
- Compact star
- Compass
- Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
- Compton effect
- Compton scattering
- Concave
- Cone Nebula
- Conon of Samos
- Constellation
- Constellation-X
- Contact binary
- Convex
- Copernican
- Copernican heliocentric system
- Copernican principle
- Copernican revolution
- Copernicus
- Copernicus, Nicolaus
- Copley Medal
- Cordelia (moon)
- Cornelius Agrippa
- Corona
- Corona Australis
- Corona Borealis
- Coronagraph
- Coronal gas
- Corot (astronomy)
- Corvus (constellation)
- Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope
- Cosmic Background Explorer satellite
- Cosmic Background Imager
- Cosmic Background Radiation
- Cosmic background radiation
- Cosmic censorship hypothesis
- Cosmic inflation
- Cosmic microwave background
- Cosmic microwave background radiation
- Cosmic radiation
- Cosmic ray
- Cosmic ray spallation
- Cosmic rays
- Cosmogony
- Cosmological Principle
- Cosmological constant
- Cosmological principle
- Cosmological time
- Cosmology
- Cosmonaut
- Côte d'Azur Observatory
- Coudé design
- Crab Nebula
- Crater (impact)
- Crater (constellation)
- Creation of the Universe
- Cressida (moon)
- CRESU experiment
- Crisium basin
- Cryogenic Dark Matter Search
- Cubewano
- Cygnus
- Cygnus (constellation)
- Cygnus A
- Cygnus X-1
D
- d'Alembert, Jean le Rond
- D-type asteroid
- Dactyl (asteroid)
- Damocloid
- Danjon Scale
- Danjon, André
- Daphnis
- Dark energy
- Dark matter
- Dark moon
- Dark nebula
- Darwin (ESA)
- Darwin (crater)
- Dawn --
- de Lacaille, Nicolas Louis
- De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
- de Vaucouleurs, Gérard
- Debye length
- Declination
- Deep sky object
- Deferent and epicycle
- Degenerate matter
- Degree (angle)
- Deimos (moon)
- Deimos (moon)
- Delphinus
- Delphinus (constellation)
- Deneb
- Denebola
- Desdemona (moon)
- Despina (moon)
- Detached binary
- Diffraction
- Diffraction-limited
- Diffuse sky radiation
- Dingle, Herbert
- Dione (moon)
- Dirac, Paul
- Disc (galaxy)
- Dispersion (optics)
- Diurnal motion
- Dmitri Maksutov
- Dobsonian
- Dobsonian mount
- Dollfus, Audouin
- Dome C
- Doppler effect
- Doppler shift
- Dorado
- Double pendulum
- Double star
- Draco
- Draco (constellation)
- Drake equation
- Drake, Frank
- Draper, Henry
- Dreyer, John
- Drift velocity
- Dubhe
- Dumbbell Nebula
- Duncan, Robert
- Dusk
- Dust
- Dutch Open Telescope
- Dwarf elliptical galaxy
- Dwarf galaxy
- Dwarf spheroidal galaxy
- Dynamical system
- Dynamical systems and chaos theory
- Dyson, Frank
- Dyson, Freeman
E
- E-type asteroid
- Early Imbrian
- Earth
- Earth atmosphere
- Earth impacts
- Earth's atmosphere
- Earth's magnetic field
- Earthshine
- Eccentric anomaly
- Eccentricity
- Eccentricity (orbit)
- Eclipse
- Eclipsing binary
- Ecliptic
- Ecliptic coordinate system
- Ecliptic longitude
- Eddington Medal
- Eddington limit
- Eddington luminosity
- Eddington, Arthur
- Edmund Halley
- Edward Charles Pickering
- Effelsberg
- Einstein, Albert
- Einstein Observatory
- Einstein shift
- Elara (moon)
- Eleanor F. Helin
- Electromagnetic radiation
- Electromagnetic spectrum
- Elliptic orbit
- Elliptical Galaxy M87
- Elliptical galaxy
- Elliptical orbit
- Elnath
- Elongation
- Elve
- Emission line
- Emission nebula
- Enceladus (moon)
- Encke division
- Encke, Johann Franz
- Energy density
- English equatorial mount
- Ephemeris
- Ephemeris Time
- Epimetheus (moon)
- Epoch (astronomy)
- Eponym
- EPR paradox
- Epsilon Eridani
- Epsilon Indi
- Equation of time
- Equatorial bulge
- Equatorial coordinate system
- Equatorial mount
- Equinox
- Equuleus
- Eratosthenes
- Eratosthenian
- Eridanus (constellation)
- Ernest Rutherford
- Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel
- Erriapo (moon)
- Eruptive variable
- ESA
- ESA Space Debris Telescope
- Escape velocity
- Eta Carinae
- Ethane
- Euclid
- Euclidean geometry
- Euclidean space
- Euctemon
- Eudoxus of Cnidus
- Eugenia
- Euler angles
- Euler, Leonhard
- Europa (moon)
- European Southern Observatory
- European Space Agency
- European VLBI Network
- Event horizon
- Everett many-worlds interpretation
- Everett, Hugh
- Exeligmos
- Exit pupil
- Exoplanet
- EXOSAT
- Exterrestrial intelligence
- Extragalactic astronomy
- Extrasolar planet
- Extraterrestrial life
- Extreme Universe Space Observatory
- Eyepiece
F
- F-number
- F-type asteroid
- Fabricius, David
- Fabricius, Johannes
- Facula
- Far infrared astronomy
- Far side (Moon)
- Farthest Galaxy
- Faulkes Telescope North
- Faulkes Telescope South
- Fermi paradox
- Fermi, Enrico
- Feynman, Richard
- Field (physics)
- Field curvature aberration
- Field of view
- Finderscope
- First Point of Aries
- First Point of Libra
- First light
- FITS
- FitzGerald-Lorentz Contraction
- Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory
- Flamsteed designation
- Flamsteed, John
- Flare star
- Flat earth
- Flatness problem
- Flux
- Focal length
- Focal plane
- Focus
- Fomalhaut
- Forbidden line
- Fork mount
- Fornax
- Fountain, John
- Four-vector
- Fowler, William
- Frame of reference
- François Arago
- François Jean Dominique Arago
- Frederick de Houtman
- Friedmann equations
- Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker
- Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
- Full moon
- Full moon cycle
- Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer
- Fundamental plane
- Furud
G
- Gérard de Vaucouleurs
- G-type asteroid
- Gacrux
- Gaia probe
- Galactic astronomy
- Galactic bulge
- Galactic cluster
- Galactic coordinate system
- Galactic corona
- Galactic cosmic ray
- Galactic disk
- Galactic halo
- Galactic plane
- Galatea (moon)
- Galaxies
- Galaxy
- Galaxy Abell 1835 IR1916
- Galaxy classification
- Galaxy cluster
- Galaxy disk
- Galaxy formation and evolution
- Galaxy morphology
- Galaxy nucleus
- Galaxy rotation problem
- GALEX
- Galilean moons
- Galilean transformation
- Galileo Galilei
- Galileo probe
- Galileo spacecraft
- Galle, Johann Gottfried
- Gamma ray burst
- Gamma ray burster
- Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
- Gamma-ray astronomy
- Gamow, George
- Ganymede (moon)
- Ganymede (moon)
- Gas giant
- Gassendi
- Gassendi crater
- Gathmann, Louis
- Gauss, Carl Friedrich
- Gaussian gravitational constant
- Gegenschein
- Geller, Margaret
- Gemini
- Gemini Observatory
- Geminids
- General Catalogue of Trigonometric Parallaxes
- General Relativity
- General theory of relativity
- Geocentric
- Geocentric model
- Geocentric universe
- Geodesic
- Geoid
- Geomagnetic storm
- George Gabriel Stokes
- Georges Lemaître
- Geostationary orbit
- German equatorial mount
- Giacconi, Riccardo
- Giant (star)
- Giant Magellan Telescope
- Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT)
- Giant impact theory
- Giant molecular cloud
- Giant star
- Giovanni Battista Riccioli
- GJ 1061
- Gliese 876
- Gliese, Wilhelm
- Gliese-Jahreiss catalogue
- Globular cluster
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Gold, Thomas
- Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
- Goldstone Radio Telescope
- Goodman-Martínez-Thompson correlation
- Gottfried Leibniz
- Gran Telescopio Canarias
- Grand Interferometre a 2 Telescopes
- Grand unification epoch
- Grand unification theory
- Gravitation
- Gravitational binding energy
- Gravitational collapse
- Gravitational constant
- Gravitational field
- Gravitational force
- Gravitational instability
- Gravitational lens
- Gravitational lensing
- Gravitational micro-lensing
- Gravitational redshift
- Gravitational singularity
- Gravitational slingshot
- Gravitational wave
- Gravitational waves
- Graviton
- Gravity
- Gravity wave
- Great Attractor
- Great Observatories program
- Great Red Spot
- Great Wall (astronomy)
- Great circle
- Green Bank Telescope
- Greenwich
- Greenwich Mean Time
- Gregorian telescope
- Gregory, James
- Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit
- Grigoriy N. Neujmin
- Groombridge 1830
- Group 70
- Groups and clusters of galaxies
- GRS80
- Grus
- Grus (constellation)
- Guldin
- Guth, Alan
H
- H II region
- H-R diagram
- H-alpha
- Hadar
- Haemus, Montes
- HALCA
- Hale telescope
- Hale, George Ellery
- Half-Mile Telescope
- Hall, Asaph
- Halley, Edmond
- Halo (optical phenomenon)
- Hamal
- Hamilton, William Rowan
- Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén
- Hans Bethe
- Harvard College Observatory
- Harvard Revised catalogue
- Haverah Park experiment
- Hawking radiation
- Hawking, Stephen
- HD 209458b
- HE0107-5240
- Heat death
- Heat-death of the Universe
- HEGRA
- Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope
- Heka
- Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy
- Helene (moon)
- Heliacal rising
- Heliocentric
- Heliocentric model
- Heliocentrism
- Heliopause
- Helios
- Helioseismology
- Heliosphere
- Helium flash
- Helix Nebula
- Hemisphere
- Henri Poincaré
- Henry Draper Catalogue
- Henry Draper Medal
- Henry E. Holt
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
- Herakles
- Herbig-Haro object
- Hercules (constellation)
- Hercules Globular Cluster
- Herman of Carinthia
- Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- Herschel Space Observatory
- Herschel, Caroline
- Herschel, John
- Herschel, William
- Hertzsprung, Ejnar
- Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
- Hesiod
- Hevelius, Johannes
- Hewish Antony
- High Energy Transient Explorer
- High Resolution Fly's Eye Cosmic Ray Detector
- High-energy astronomy
- High-mass X-ray binaries
- Hilbert space
- Himalia (moon)
- Himalia group
- Hipparchus
- Hipparcos
- Hipparcos Catalogue
- Hipparcos catalogue
- History of astronomical interferometry
- History of astronomy
- History of telescopes
- Hoag's object
- Hobby-Eberly Telescope
- Hooker Telescope
- Horace Parnell Tuttle
- Horizon
- Horizon problem
- Horizontal branch
- Horizontal coordinate system
- Horn (telescope)
- Horologium
- Horoscope
- Horrendous Space Kablooie
- Horrocks, Jeremiah
- Horsehead Nebula
- Hot dark matter
- Hour angle
- Hourglass Nebula
- Houtermans, Fritz
- Hoyle, Fred
- Hubble Deep Field
- Hubble Law
- Hubble Nebula
- Hubble Origins Probe
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Hubble constant
- Hubble flow
- Hubble sequence
- Hubble's Law
- Hubble, Edwin
- Huchra, John
- Huggins, William
- Hulse, Russell
- Humason, Milton
- Huygens Region
- Huygens probe
- Huygens, Christiaan
- Hyades (star cluster)
- Hydra (constellation)
- Hydrus
- Hypergalaxy
- Hyperion (moon)
- Hypernova
- Hyperon
- Hypothetical planet
I
- I Sin
- Iapetus (moon)
- IAU
- Icy moon
- Ijiraq (moon)
- Imbrian
- Immanuel Kant
- Impact basin
- Impact event
- Inclination
- Indigo
- Inductance
- Indus (constellation)
- Inex
- Inferior and superior planets
- Inferior planet
- Inflationary epoch
- Infrared Optical Telescope Array
- Infrared Space Observatory
- Infrared astronomy
- Inner satellites of Jupiter
- Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
- Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
- INTEGRAL
- Integrated Sachs Wolfe effect
- Intensity
- Intensity interferometer
- Interacting binary stars
- Intercalary day
- Intercalary month
- Intercalation
- Interferometer
- Interferometer telescope
- Interferometry
- Intergalactic medium
- International Astronomical Union
- International Atomic Time
- International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service
- International Space Station
- International Star Registry
- International Sunspot Number
- Interplanetary Scintillation Array
- Interstellar cloud
- Interstellar dust
- Interstellar medium
- Introduction to Geomagnetically Trapped Radiation
- Io (moon)
- Ionosphere
- IPCC
- IRAF
- IRAS
- IRC +10216
- Irregular galaxy
- Irregular variable
- Isa, Ali Ben
- Isaac Newton Telescope
- Isolated singularity
- Italian Space Agency
- Ithaca Chasma
J
- J2000
- J2000.0
- Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope
- Jahreiss, Hartmut
- James Clerk Maxwell
- James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
- James Webb Space Telescope
- Jansky
- Jansky, Karl Guthe
- Janus (moon)
- Jeans, James
- Jennison, Roger Clifton
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Jodrell Bank
- Jodrell Bank Observatory
- Johannesburg Observatory
- Jones, Harold
- Jovian planet
- Julian Calendar
- Julian date
- Julian day
- Julian epoch
- Julian year (astronomy)
- Juliet (moon)
- Jupiter (planet)
- Jupiter's natural satellites
- Jyotish
K
- K-type asteroid
- Kabbalistic
- Kaluza-Klein theory
- Kamacite
- Kapteyn's Star
- Kapteyn, Jacobus
- Kavelaars, John J.
- Keck Interferometer
- Keck Observatory
- Keck telescopes
- Keeler, James Edward
- Kelvin-Helmholtz mechanism
- Kenneth S. Russell
- Kepler's laws of planetary motion
- Kepler, Johannes
- Keplerian harmonic law
- Khayyám, Omar
- Kidinnu
- Kirkwood gap
- Kirkwood, Daniel
- Kitt Peak National Observatory
- Kiviuq (moon)
- Klet Observatory
- KOSMA
- Kristian Birkeland
- Kruger 60
- KStars
- Kubiak, Marcin
- Kuiper Airborne Observatory
- Kuiper Belt
- Kuiper, Gerard
L
- L-type asteroid
- La Silla Observatory
- Labeyrie, Antoine
- Lacaille 9352
- Lacaille, Nicolas Louis de
- Lacerta
- Lacus Aestatis
- Lacus Autumni
- Lacus Bonitatis
- Lacus Doloris
- Lacus Excellentiae
- Lacus Felicitatis
- Lacus Gaudii
- Lacus Hiemalis
- Lacus Lenitatis
- Lacus Luxuriae
- Lacus Mortis
- Lacus Oblivionis
- Lacus Odii
- Lacus Perseverantiae
- Lacus Solitudinis
- Lacus Somniorum
- Lacus Spei
- Lacus Temporis
- Lacus Timoris
- Lacus Veris
- Lagoon Nebula
- Lagrange, Joseph Louis
- Lagrangian mechanics
- Lagrangian point
- Lalande 21185
- Lambda-CDM model
- Lambert, Johann Heinrich
- Lanczos, Cornelius
- Langley, Samuel Pierpont
- Langrange, Joseph-Louis de
- Lansberg's tables
- Lansberg, Philip Van
- Laplace, Pierre-Simon
- Large Binocular Telescope
- Large Magellanic Cloud
- Large liquid mirror telescope
- Large-scale structure of the cosmos
- Larissa
- Larson, Stephen
- Lassell, William
- Late Nectarian
- Latitude
- Laurent Cassegrain
- Law of universal gravitation
- LBT
- Le Verrier, Urbain
- Leavitt, Henrietta Swan
- Leda (moon)
- LEGRI
- Leiden Observatory
- Lemaître, Georges-Henri
- Lens (optics)
- Lens sag
- Lenticular galaxy
- Leo
- Leo Minor
- Leonids
- Lepus
- Leuschner Observatory
- Levi, David H.
- Libra
- Libration
- Lick Observatory
- Light curve
- Light pollution
- Light year
- Light-time correction
- LIGO
- LINEAR
- Lippershey, Hans
- LISA (astronomy)
- List of asteroids
- List of astronomers
- List of astronomical interferometers at visible and infrared wavelengths
- List of astronomical objects named after people
- List of astrophysicists
- List of brightest stars
- List of comets
- List of constellations by area
- List of craters on the Moon
- List of galaxies
- List of largest optical reflecting telescopes
- List of largest optical refracting telescopes
- List of meteor showers
- List of mnemonics for star classification
- List of molecules in interstellar space
- List of nearest stars
- List of non-periodic comets
- List of observatories
- List of optical telescopes
- List of periodic comets
- List of publications in physics
- List of radio telescopes
- List of semiregular variable stars
- List of solar system objects
- List of solar system objects by mass
- List of solar system objects by radius
- List of stars
- List of stars with confirmed extrasolar planets
- List of telescope types
- Little Dipper
- Liverpool Telescope
- Llano de Chajnantor Observatory
- Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich
- Local Group
- Local Supercluster
- LOFAR
- Lomonosov Gold Medal
- Long Count
- Long period variable
- Longitude
- Longitude of the ascending node
- Longitude prize
- Loop quantum gravity
- LOPES Project
- Lord Rosse
- Lorentz transformation
- Lorentz transformation equations
- Lorentz, Hendrik
- Lorentzian function
- Lorenz attractor
- Lorenz, Edward
- Lovell Radio Telescope
- Low Earth orbiting satellite
- Low-mass X-ray binaries
- Lowell Observatory
- Lowell, Percival
- Lower Imbrian
- Lucky imaging
- Luminance
- Luminiferous aether
- Luminosity
- Luminosity distance
- Luna
- Luna 9
- Lunar
- Lunar calendar
- Lunar distance
- Lunar eclipse
- Lunar geologic timescale
- Lunar mare
- Lunar meteorite
- Lunar node
- Lunar phase
- Lunar precession
- Lunation
- Lunisolar calendar
- Lunisolar precession
- Lupus
- Lupus (constellation)
- Luyten Half-Second catalogue
- Lyapunov, Aleksandr
- Lyman alpha forest
- Lynx (constellation)
- Lyot filter
- Lyot, Bernard-Ferdinand
- Lyra
- Lysithea
M
- M-theory
- M-theory simplified
- M-type asteroid
- M100
- M101 (Pinwheel Galaxy)
- M104
- M107 (Globular Cluster)
- M13 (Messier Object 13)
- M27 (Dumbbell Nebula)
- M31
- M33 (Triangulum Galaxy)
- M41
- M42 (Orion Nebula)
- M45 (Pleiades (star cluster))
- M49
- M57
- M58
- M59
- M60
- M61
- M81
- M81 Group
- M82
- M84
- M86
- M87
- M90
- MacTutor archive
- Mach's principle
- Maffei Group
- Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer
- Magellan (Telescopes)
- Magellanic Clouds
- MAGIC (telescope)
- Magnetar
- Magnetic flux tubes
- Magnetopause
- Magnetosphere
- Magnitude
- Magnitude comparison
- Main belt
- Main sequence
- Maksutov telescope
- Maksutov-Cassegrain
- Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope
- Manifold
- Manilius, Marcus
- Many-worlds interpretation
- Marcy, Geoffrey
- Mare Anguis
- Mare Australe
- Mare Cognitum
- Mare Crisium
- Mare Fecunditatis
- Mare Frigoris
- Mare Humboldtianum
- Mare Humorum
- Mare Imbrium
- Mare Ingenii
- Mare Insularum
- Mare Marginis
- Mare Moscoviense
- Mare Nectaris
- Mare Nubium
- Mare Orientale
- Mare Serenitatis
- Mare Smythii
- Mare Spumans
- Mare Tranquillitatis
- Mare Undarum
- Mare Vaporum
- Marius, Simon
- Mars (planet)
- Mars Express
- Mars Global Surveyor
- Mars Pathfinder
- Mars-crosser asteroid
- Marshall Space Flight Center
- Martian meteorite
- Maser
- Maskelyne, Nevil
- Mass extinction
- Mass transfer
- Mass-energy equivalence
- Massive compact halo object
- Mauna Kea Observatory
- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory
- Maunder Minimum
- Mayor, Michel
- Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de
- Mauritius Radio Telescope
- Max Born
- Mayor, Michael
- McCormick Observatory
- McCrea, William
- McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope
- Mean anomaly
- Mean solar day
- Mean solar time
- Mean sun
- Megaparsec
- Megrez
- Mensa (constellation)
- MER-B
- Merak
- Mercator Telescope
- Mercator, Nicholas
- Mercury (planet)
- Meridian (astronomy)
- Meridian (geography)
- MERLIN
- Messier marathon
- Messier object
- Messier, Charles
- Metal-poor
- Metal-rich
- Metallicity
- Meteor
- Meteor shower
- Meteorite
- Meteorites classification
- Meteoroid
- Methone (moon)
- Metis (moon)
- Meton
- Metonic cycle
- Metric space
- Miaplacidus
- Michell, John
- Michelson-Morley experiment
- Microquasar
- Microscopium
- Microvariability and Oscillations of STars telescope
- Milankovitch cycles
- Milky Way
- Milky Way Galaxy
- Mills Cross Telescope
- Mimas (moon)
- Minkowski space
- Minor Planet Center
- Minor planet
- Mintaka
- Minute of arc
- Mir
- Mira
- Mira variable
- Mirach
- Miranda (moon)
- Mirfak
- Mizar
- MMT
- MMT Observatory
- Modern geocentrism
- Modified Newtonian dynamics
- Molecular cloud
- Molecular hydrogen
- Molonglo Cross Telescope
- Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope
- Monoceros
- Monocular
- Mons Ida
- Mons Lyctas
- Montes Apenninus
- Montes Carpatus
- Montes Caucasus
- Montes Cordillera
- Montes Pyrenaeus
- Montes Riphaeus
- Montes Rook
- Moon
- Moon phase
- Moore, Patrick
- Mount Palomar observatory
- Mount Stromlo Observatory
- Mount Wilson Observatory
- MOXE
- Mueller, Jean
- Muliphem
- Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory
- Multiple star
- Multiverse
- Mundilfari (moon)
- Murzim
- Musca
- Mädler, Johann Heinrich, von
- Méchain, Pierre
- Möbius, August Ferdinand
- Müller, Johannes
N
- N-body problem
- Nabu-rimanni
- Nadir
- Naiad (moon)
- Naive set theory
- Naked eye
- Naked singularity
- Nançay Radio Telescope
- Naos
- Napier, John
- Narrabri Stellar Intensity Interferometer
- Narvi (moon)
- NASA
- National Optical Astronomy Observatory
- National Radio Astronomy Observatory
- Natural satellite
- Nature (journal)
- Navigation
- Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer
- NEAR Shoemaker
- Near-Earth asteroid
- Near-Earth object
- Nebula
- Nebular hypothesis
- Nectarian
- Nectarian System
- Nemesis (star)
- Nemontemi
- Neptune (planet)
- Neptune's natural satellites
- Nereid (moon)
- Neutrino mass
- Neutrino oscillation
- Neutron star
- Neutronium
- Nevanlinna, Rolf
- New General Catalogue
- New Horizons
- New Technology Telescope
- New moon
- Newcomb's Tables of the Sun
- Newcomb, Simon
- Newton's laws of motion
- Newton, Isaac
- Newtonian mechanics
- Newtonian physics
- Newtonian telescope
- Next Generation Space Telescope
- NGC 1068
- NGC 2244
- NGC 2264
- NGC 3227
- NGC 3516
- NGC 4321
- NGC 4486
- NGC 4593
- NGC 5128
- NGC 6027
- NGC 6171
- NGC 6240
- NGC 6751
- NGC 7742
- NGST
- Nice Observatory
- Nicholson, Seth Barnes
- Niels Bohr Institute
- Night sky
- Nikola Tesla
- Nilson, Peter
- NOAO
- Node (astronomy)
- Non-Euclidean geometry
- Non-standard cosmology
- Nordic Optical Telescope
- Norma (constellation)
- North
- North America Nebula
- North Star
- Northeastern Space Radio Observatory
- Northern Hemisphere
- Nova
- Novara da Ferrara, Domenico Maria
- Novikov, Igor Dmitrievich
- Novikov, Petr Sergeevich
- Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array
- Nucleocosmochronology
- Nucleosynthesis
- Nutation
O
- O-type asteroid
- Oak Ridge Observatory
- Oberon (moon)
- Oberth, Hermann Julius
- Oblateness
- Obliquity of the ecliptic
- Obruchev (crater)
- Observable universe
- Observation
- Observatory
- Observatorio del Teide
- Observatory of Strasbourg
- Occultation
- Oceanus Procellarum
- Octans
- Odysseus crater
- OGS Telescope
- OH maser
- Olbers' paradox
- Olbers, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus
- Ole Rømer
- Oliver Heaviside
- Olympus Mons
- Omar Khayyám
- Omega Centauri
- Omniverse
- One-Mile Telescope
- Onsala Space Observatory
- Oort cloud
- Oort, Jan
- Ooty Radio Telescope
- Open cluster
- Ophelia (moon)
- Ophiuchus
- Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit
- Opposition (astronomy)
- Optical astronomy
- Optical axis
- Optical binary
- Optical depth
- Optical double
- Optical interferometry
- Optical telescope
- Optical window
- Orbit
- Orbital elements
- Orbital period
- Orbital plane (astronomy)
- Orbital resonance
- Orbital revolution
- Orbital speed
- Orbiting Astronomical Observatory
- Origin of life
- Origin of lunar nomenclature
- Orion
- Orion Nebula
- Orrery
- Oscillatory universe
- Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri
- Osservatorio Astrometrico Santa Lucia Stroncone
- Outer Rook Mountains
- Outer space
- Overwhelmingly Large Telescope
- Owens Valley Radio Observatory
- Owl Nebula
P
- P-process
- P-type asteroid
- Paaliaq (moon)
- Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale
- Palimpsest
- Palisa, Johann
- Pallasite
- Pallene (moon)
- Palomar Observatory
- Palomar Observatory Sky Survey
- Palomar Testbed Interferometer
- Pan (moon)
- Pandora (moon)
- Panspermia
- Panzano Observatory
- Parabolic mirror
- Parabolic reflector
- Parallax
- Parallel universe
- Paranal Observatory
- Paris Observatory
- Parkes Observatory
- Parsec
- Parsons, William
- Particle horizon
- Pasiphaë (moon)
- Pasiphaë group
- Paul Wild (Swiss astronomer)
- Paul Wild Observatory
- Pauli exclusion principle
- Pavo (constellation)
- Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia
- PBS
- Pegasus (constellation)
- Peirce (crater)
- Penrose, Roger
- Penumbra
- Periapsis
- Periastron
- Perigee
- Perihelion
- Perrine, Charles Dillon
- Perseids
- Perseus (constellation)
- Perseus Cluster
- Phecda
- Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
- Phobos (moon)
- Phoenix (constellation)
- Photographic plate
- Photometry
- Photosphere
- Physical cosmology
- Piazzi Smyth, Charles
- Piazzi, Giuseppe
- Picard crater
- Pickering, Edward
- Pickering, William Henry
- Pictor
- Pierre Auger Observatory
- Pierre Méchain
- Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser
- Pinwheel Galaxy
- Pioneer 10
- Pioneer 11
- Pisces
- Piscis Austrinus
- Piwnice radio observatory
- Planck Surveyor
- Planck units
- Planck's law of black body radiation
- Planck, Max
- Planet
- Planet X
- Planetarium
- Planetary Hypothesis
- Planetary motion
- Planetary nebula
- Planetary nomenclature
- Planetary orbit
- Planetary phase
- Planetary ring
- Planetary science
- Planetary system
- Planetesimal
- Planetoid
- Planetology
- Planisphaerium
- Plasma cosmology
- Plateau de Bure Interferometer
- Plato
- Pleiades
- Plekhnaton
- Plutino
- Pluto (planet)
- Pogson, Norman Robert
- Poincaré group
- Poincaré, Henri
- Poisson, Siméon-Denis
- Polar Aurora
- Polar coordinate system
- Polar coordinates
- Polar distance
- Polarimetry
- Polaris
- Polarization
- Polarized light
- Pole
- Pollux
- Polydeuces (moon)
- Pond, John
- Pons, Jean-Louis
- Population II
- Porrima (star)
- Portia (moon)
- Posidonius
- Positional astronomy
- Potočnik, Herman
- Potsdam Observatory
- Pre-Nectarian
- Precession
- Priestley, Joseph
- Primary mirror
- Prime Meridian
- Primordial black hole
- Primordial material
- Principle of relativity
- Prism (optics)
- Procellarum basin
- Procyon
- Procyon A
- Procyon B
- Prograde and retrograde motion
- Prograde orbit
- Prometheus (moon)
- Promonitorium Agarum
- Pronunciation of asteroid names
- Proper motion
- Proper motion distance
- Proper time
- Proplyd
- Prosen, Marjan Majo
- Prospero (moon)
- Proteus (moon)
- Proto-star
- Proton-antiproton imbalance
- Proton-proton chain
- Protoplanetary disc
- Protoplanetary disk
- Protostar
- Protostellar disk
- Provisional designation
- Proxima Centauri
- Prussian tables
- Prutenicae Tabulae
- PSR 1257 plus 12
- PSR B1620-26
- PSR B1620-26c
- PSR J1748-2446ad
- Ptolemaic system
- Ptolemy
- Ptolemy Cluster
- Puck (moon)
- Pulsar
- Pupil
- Puppis
- Pythagoras
- Pyxis
Q
- Q-type asteroid
- Quadrant
- Quadrivium
- Quantum gravity
- Quaoar
- Quark-antiquark epoch
- Quark-gluon plasma
- Quasar
- Quasars, Redshifts and Controversies
- Queloz, Didier
- Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques
- Quintessence
- Quintessence (physics)
R
- R-process
- R-type asteroid
- R. Paul Butler
- Rabinowitz, David L.
- Radial velocity
- Radian
- Radiant
- Radiation pressure
- Radio astronomy
- Radio galaxy
- Radio halo
- Radio star
- Radio telescope
- Radio window
- Ranzinger, Pavla
- Rare Earth hypothesis
- Ras Algethi
- RATAN-600
- Rayleigh scattering
- Reber, Grote
- Red clump
- Red dwarf
- Red dwarf star
- Red giant
- Redshift
- Rees, Martin
- Reference frame
- Reflecting telescope
- Reflection nebula
- Refracting telescope
- Regiomontanus
- Regolith
- Regulus
- Reinhold, Erasmus
- Reitsema, Harold
- Relativistic jet
- Research Consortium on Nearby Stars
- Resolution (optics)
- Resolving power
- Reticulum
- Retrogade orbit
- Retrogradation
- Retrograde motion
- Revised Julian calendar
- Reynolds, Alastair
- Rhea (moon)
- Rheticus, Georg Joachim
- Rho Coronae Borealis
- Rhyolite
- Riemannian geometry
- Rigel
- Right ascension
- Rijl al Awwa
- Rima Sirsalis
- Ring Nebula
- Ring current
- Ring galaxy
- Rings of Saturn
- Ritchey, George Willis
- Ritchey-Chrétien telescope
- Robert Burnham, Jr.
- Robert G. Harrington
- Robert Hooke
- Robert Oppenheimer
- Robert Woodrow Wilson
- Robotic telescope
- Roche limit
- Roche lobe
- Roche, Édouard Albert
- Rocket
- Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
- Rosalind (moon)
- ROSAT
- Rosette Nebula
- Ross 128
- Ross 154
- Ross 248
- Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer
- Rotation period
- Royal Astronomical Society
- Royal Greenwich Observatory
- Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
- RR Lyrae
- RR Lyrae variable
- Rubin, Vera
- Rudbeckius, Olaus
- Russell, Henry Norris
- Ryle Telescope
- Ryle, Martin
- Rømer, Ole
S
- S-process
- S-type asteroid
- S/1986 U 10
- S/2001 U 2
- S/2001 U 3
- S/2002 N 1
- S/2002 N 2
- S/2002 N 3
- S/2002 N 4
- S/2003 J 12
- S/2003 J 2
- S/2003 N 1
- S/2003 U 1
- S/2003 U 2
- S/2003 U 3
- S/2004 S 10
- S/2004 S 11
- S/2004 S 12
- S/2004 S 13
- S/2004 S 14
- S/2004 S 15
- S/2004 S 16
- S/2004 S 17
- S/2004 S 18
- S/2004 S 3
- S/2004 S 4
- S/2004 S 6
- S/2004 S 7
- S/2004 S 8
- S/2004 S 9
- Sabine, Edward
- Sagan, Carl
- Sagitta
- Sagittarius
- Sagittarius A
- Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy
- Saiph
- Samuel Oschin telescope
- Sandage, Allan
- Saros
- Satellite
- Saturn (planet)
- Saturn Nebula
- Saturn's natural satellites
- Savile, Henry
- Savilian chair of astronomy
- Scattered disc
- Scheiner, Christoph
- Schmidt camera
- Schmidt corrector plate
- Schmidt survey
- Schmidt, Bernard
- Schmidt, Bernhard
- Schmidt, Bernhard Voldomar
- Schmidt, Maarten
- Schmidt-Cassegrain
- Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope
- Schwabe, Heinrich
- Schwabe, Samuel Heinrich
- Schwarzschild metric
- Schwarzschild radius
- Schwarzschild, Karl
- Schwassmann-Wachmann-3
- Science (journal)
- Scintillation (astronomy)
- Scorpius
- Sculptor (constellation)
- Sculptor Group
- Scutum
- Second Superstring Revolution
- Second of arc
- Secondary mirror
- Seeing
- Semi-major axis
- Semidetached binary
- Semimajor axis
- Semiregular variable
- Serpens
- Serrurier trusses
- Setebos (moon)
- SETI
- Setting circle
- Sextans
- Sextant
- Seyfert galaxy
- Seyfert's Sextet
- Seyfert, Carl Keenan
- Shape of the universe
- Shapley, Harlow
- Shaula
- Shedir
- Shepherd satellite
- Shift-and-add
- Shklovsky, Iosif Samuilovich
- Shoemaker, Carolyn
- Shoemaker, Eugene
- Short, James
- Siarnaq (moon)
- Sideral day
- Sidereal astrology
- Sidereal day
- Sidereal time
- Sidereal year
- Siding Spring 2.3 m Telescope
- Siding Spring Observatory
- Sinope (moon)
- Sirius
- Sirius A
- Sirius B
- Sirona
- Sirrah
- Sirsalis (crater)
- Sitter, Willem, de
- Skathi (moon)
- Skies of other planets
- Sky
- Skylab
- Small Magellanic Cloud
- Small-angle formula
- Smith, Francis Graham
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Smyth, William Henry
- SN 1604
- Snell's law
- SOAR telescope
- Soft X-ray transient
- Soft gamma repeater
- Solar System
- Solar activity
- Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
- Solar calendar
- Solar cosmic ray
- Solar cycle
- Solar day
- Solar eclipse
- Solar flare
- Solar luminosity
- Solar mass
- Solar maximum
- Solar nebula
- Solar neutrino problem
- Solar prominence
- Solar radiation
- Solar sail
- Solar system
- Solar time
- Solar variation
- Solar wind
- Solar year
- Solstice
- Sombrero Galaxy
- Sonneberg Observatory
- Sothic cycle
- South
- South Pole Telescope
- South Pole-Aitken basin
- South pole
- Southern African Large Telescope
- Southern Hemisphere
- Southern Pinwheel Galaxy
- Southern hemisphere
- Space
- Space Interferometry Mission
- Space Race
- Space Shuttle
- Space Shuttle Atlantis
- Space Shuttle Columbia
- Space Shuttle Discovery
- Space Shuttle Endeavour
- Space Telescope Science Institute
- Space exploration
- Space observatory
- Space probe
- Space science
- Space station
- Space telescope
- Space weather
- Spacecraft
- Spacetime
- Spacewatch
- Specific orbital energy
- Speckle imaging
- Spectral class
- Spectral classification
- Spectral density
- Spectral line
- Spectral type
- Spectrograph
- Spectroheliograph
- Spectrometer
- Spectrometry
- Spectroscope
- Spectroscopic binary
- Spectroscopy
- Spectrum-X-Gamma
- Speed of gravity
- Speed of light
- Spherical aberration
- Spica
- Spiral arm
- Spiral galaxy
- Spitzer Space Telescope
- Spoerer law
- Sporus of Nicaea
- Spotting scope
- Sputnik 1
- Stable isotope
- Standard Model
- Standard candle
- Standard gravitational parameter
- Standard model
- Star
- Star catalogue
- Star cluster
- Star designation
- Star formation
- Star party
- Star system
- Starburst galaxy
- Starbust galaxy
- Starfish galaxy
- Starlink Project
- Stars
- Steady state theory
- Stellar association
- Stellar astronomy
- Stellar classification
- Stellar dynamics
- Stellar evolution
- Stellar nucleosynthesis
- Stellar nursery
- Stellar population
- Stellar wind
- Stephano (moon)
- Stephen P. Synnott
- Steven Weinberg
- Stevin, Simon
- Steward Observatory
- Stratosphere
- Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
- String theory
- Strnad, Janez
- Strong interaction
- Strong nuclear force
- STScI
- Subaru (telescope)
- Subcluster
- Subdwarf
- Submillimeter Array
- Submillimetre astronomy
- Substellar
- Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
- Summer solstice
- Sun
- Sun dog
- Sundial
- Sunflower Galaxy
- Sunlight
- Sunrise
- Sunset
- Sunspot
- Sunspot Index
- Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array
- Sunyaev-Zel'dovic-Effect
- Super jupiter
- Super-Kamiokande
- SuperWASP
- Supercluster
- Supergiant
- Supergravity
- Superior planet
- Superluminal motion
- Supermassive black hole
- Supernova
- Supernova 1604
- Supernova 1987a
- Supernova nucleosynthesis
- Supernova remnant
- Superstring theory
- Supersymmetry
- Surface brightness
- Suttungr (moon)
- Swedish Solar Telescope
- Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission
- Sycorax (moon)
- Symbols, astronomical
- Synchronous rotation
- Synchrotron radiation
- Synodic day
- Synodic month
- Synodic period
- Syrma
- Syzygy
- Szymanski, Michal
T
- T Tauri star
- T Tauri stars
- T-type asteroid
- Taikonaut
- Takeuchi, Naoko
- Tarantula Nebula
- Tarvos (moon)
- Tau Ceti
- Taurus
- Teegarden's star
- Tektite
- Telescope
- Telescope making
- Telescope mount
- Telescopio Carlos Sánchez
- Telescopio Nazionale Galileo
- Telescopium
- Telesto (moon)
- Terminator
- Terrae
- Terraforming
- Terrestrial Planet Finder
- Terrestrial Time
- Terrestrial planet
- Tethys (moon)
- Thabit ibn Qurra
- Thalassa (moon)
- Thales
- The Big Ear
- Thebe (moon)
- Themis (moon)
- Themisto (moon)
- Thomas Young (scientist)
- Thompson crater
- Thompson, Christopher
- Thorne, Kip
- Thorne-Zytkow object
- Thrymr (moon)
- Thuban
- Tidal acceleration
- Tidal force
- Tidal locking
- Tidal resonance
- Tide
- Time dilation
- Timeline of artificial satellites and space probes
- Timeline of astronomical maps, catalogs, and surveys
- Timeline of black hole physics
- Timeline of cosmic microwave background astronomy
- Timeline of cosmology
- Timeline of knowledge about galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and large-scale structure
- Timeline of knowledge about galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and large-scale structure
- Timeline of knowledge about the interstellar and intergalactic medium
- Timeline of other background radiation fields
- Timeline of solar astronomy
- Timeline of solar system astronomy
- Timeline of stellar astronomy
- Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology
- Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology
- Timeline of the Big Bang
- Timeline of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and supernovae
- Timeline of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and supernovae
- Timocharis
- Tip-tilt mirror
- Titan (moon)
- Titania (moon)
- Titius, Johann Daniel
- Titius-Bode law
- Toledan tables
- Tom Gehrels
- Tombaugh, Clyde
- Tonalamatl
- Topology of the universe
- Torino Scale
- Tpoint
- TRACE
- Trans-Neptunian object
- Transit (astronomy)
- Transit of Deimos from Mars
- Transit of Earth from Mars
- Transit of Mercury
- Transit of Phobos from Mars
- Transit of Venus
- Triangulum
- Triangulum Australe
- Triangulum Galaxy
- Trifid Nebula
- Trinculo (moon)
- Triple star
- Triple-alpha process
- Triton (moon)
- Trojan asteroid
- Tropical zodiac
- Tucana
- Tully-Fisher relation
- Tunguska event
- Turbulence
- Twilight
- Twin paradox
- Twiss, Richard Q.
- Two-body problem
- Twotino
- Tycho
- Tychonic system
- Tzol'kin
U
- UBC Liquid-Mirror Observatory
- Udalski, Andrzej
- Uhuru
- UK Schmidt Telescope
- UKIRT
- Ultimate fate of the Universe
- Ulugh Beg
- Umbra
- Umbriel (moon)
- Unidentified flying object
- Unified Theory of Active Galaxies
- United States Naval Observatory
- Unmanned space mission
- Upper Imbrian
- Uppsala Astronomical Observatory
- Uppsala General Catalogue
- Upsilon Andromedae
- Urania
- Uraniborg
- Uranometria
- Uranus (planet)
- Uranus' natural satellites
- Ursa Major
- Ursa Major Moving Group
- Ursa Minor
- UV astronomy
V
- V-type asteroid
- Väisälä, Yrjö
- Van Allen radiation belt
- Van Allen, James
- Van Lansberg, Philip
- van Maanen, Adriaan
- Variable star
- Variable star designation
- Varuna
- Vaucouleurs, Gérard de
- Vega
- Vela (constellation)
- Venus (planet)
- Venus-crosser asteroid
- Vernal equinox
- Very Large Telescope
- Very Long Baseline Array
- Very Long Baseline Interferometry
- Very Small Array
- Vienna Observatory
- VILSPA
- Vindemiatrix
- Virgo A Galaxy
- Virgo Supercluster
- Virgo cluster
- VIRGO (physics)
- Virial theorem
- VISTA (telescope)
- Visual binary
- Visual magnitude
- VLA
- VLBI
- VLT
- VLT Survey Telescope
- VLTI
- Vogel, Hermann Carl
- Volans
- von Braun, Wernher
- von Humboldt, Alexander
- von Neumann, John
- Voyager 1
- Voyager 2
- Voyager program
- Vulcan
- Vulcanoid asteroid
- Vulpecula
W
- W UMa
- W Virginis variable
- W cloud
- Walker, Richard
- Weizsäcker, Carl, von
- Wendelin, Godefroy
- Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope
- Weyl's postulate
- Weyl, Hermann Klaus Hugo
- Wezen
- Wheeler, John Archibald
- Whirlpool Galaxy
- White dwarf
- White hole
- Wien's law
- Wigner, Eugene
- Willebrord van Roijen Snell
- William McCrea (astronomer)
- William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
- Wilson effect
- WIMP
- Winter solstice
- Wirtz, Carl Wilhelm
- Witten, Edward
- WIYN Consortium
- WMAP
- Wolf 359
- Wolf Number
- Wolf, Max
- Wolf-Rayet star
- Wolfe
- Wolfendale, Arnold
- Wolszczan, Aleksander
- Woolley, Richard van der Riet
- Wren, Christopher
X
- X-ray astronomy
- X-ray binaries
- X-ray burster
- X-ray pulsar
- X-type asteroid
- Xaver, Franz, Baron von Zach
- Xiuhmolpilli
- XMM-Newton
Y
- Yale Bright Star Catalog
- Yarkovsky effect
- Yerkes Observatory
- Yerkes telescope
- Ymir (moon)
- YORP effect
- Young stellar object
- Young, Charles Augustus
- Yrjö Väisälä
Z
- Zaniah
- Zavijah
- Zeeman effect
- Zeeman, Pieter
- Zenith
- Zenithal hourly rate
- Zeta Boötis
- Zeta Reticuli
- Zhang Heng
- Zodiac
- Zodiacal light
- Zond 3
- Zoroastrian calendar
- Zwicky, Fritz
- Zytkow, Anna
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