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Introduction

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Astronomical objects. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Astronomical_objects/Worklist.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

Scope

The purpose of this WikiProject is to create, improve and standardize articles for astronomical objects. Templates to list basic information, along with guideline recommendations, are given below.

Goal

  1. To bring all astronomical object articles up to featured or good standard. The most important articles are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Astronomical_objects/Worklist.
  2. ...while ensuring that basic information is presented in uniform, clear and aesthetic infoboxes.


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Rename/deletion/merge status update

To bring people up-to-date on the status of renamings and deletions:

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I'm happy to do any AWB edits as required when these are approved, just leave me a message. WilliamKF 01:04, 7 December 2006 (UTC)



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Projects

Projects

A list of the most important astronomical object topics is maintained at Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects/Worklist. Please work on bringing these articles up to good or featured standards! The standards required are given at Wikipedia:What is a featured article? and Wikipedia:What is a good article?.

Collaboration

The Astronomy Collaboration of the Week is currently inactive.

Newest astronomical object articles

Please feel free to list your new Astronomical objects-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the main page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.


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Templates

Templates

Astronomical object articles need an infobox to show basic data about them. A complete list of the templates to be used is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects/Infoboxes.

When filling in scientific data, you may find the following templates useful:

  • {{±|pos|neg}} which produces: +pos−neg used thus: 500 +35−22 km. (Avoid using it in a link, though: it looks bad)
  • {{e|n}} which produces: ×10n used thus: 5.97{{e|24}} kg, which gives 5.97×1024 kg.

The DEC and RA templates have been improved to allow the omission of the third argument to result in a less precise location that is useful in the case of galaxy groups. For example:

  • {{DEC|degrees|minutes}} which produces: degrees° minutes′ used thus: 23° 47′.
  • {{RA|hours|minutes}} which produces: hoursh minutesm used thus: 12h 17m.

Other useful templates:


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Collaboration


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Categories


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Links


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Resources

Resources

Important resources for researching articles:



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Wikiproject Astronomy

Wikiproject Astronomical objects
(WP:ASTRO)

Contents


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Structure


Universe

  • Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMB)
  • Filament
  • Void Region // outside the galaxy.
  • Galaxy Cluster
    • Supercluster
    • Cluster
    • Galaxy Group
    • Fossil Group

Extragalactic

  • Types of Galaxy
    • Protogalaxy (theoretical) [1]
    • Nuclear activity types
      • Seyfert
      • Low ionization nuclear emission region (LINER)
      • HII
      • Wolf-Rayet Galaxy
      • Transition
      • Quasar / QSO
      • Blazar
      • Radio galaxy
    • Morphological types
      • Elliptical (E)
      • Lenticular (S0)
      • Spiral (S)
        • Unbarred spiral (SA)
        • Barred spiral (SB)
      • Irregular (I)
    • Starburst Galaxy
      • Luminous infrared galaxy (LIRG)
      • Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galaxy (ULIRG)
    • Interacting Galaxy
    • Dwarf Galaxy
      • Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy (dE)
      • Dwarf Spheroid Galaxy (dSph)
      • Dwarf Sprial Galaxy (dS) // verifying, CarpD.
      • Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy (BCD)
      • Dwarf Irregular Galaxy (dI)
    • Dark Galaxy
    • Galaxy Remenant
  • Intergalactic Medium
    • Intracluster Medium (ICM)

Galactic Structure

  • Galactic Structure
    • Galactic Core Region
      • Galactic Bulge Region
      • Galactic Bar Region
    • Galactic Ring Structure
    • Galactic Arm Structure
      • Thick Disk
      • Thin Disk
    • Tidal Stream // ie. Monoceros Tidal Stream.
    • Galactic Spheroid
      • Galactic Corona
      • Halo Region
    • Intersteallar Medium (ISM)
      • Molecular Cloud // tracking, CarpD.
      • Cold Neutral Medium (CNM)
      • Warm Neutral Medium (WNM)
      • Warm Ionized Medium (WIM)
      • HII Region // tracking, CarpD.
      • Coronal Gas / Hot Ionized Medium (HIM) // tracking, CarpD.

Conglomerate / Cluster

  • Stellar Cluster
    • Stellar Stream // a shredded part of a galaxy, ie. Virgo Stream.
    • Extended Globular
    • Globular
      • Protoglobular Cluster [2]
    • Open Cluster
    • Moving Group
    • Stellar Association
    • Asterism
      • Double / Binary
        • Wide Binary
        • Long Binary
        • Close Binary
        • Interacting Binary
          • Contact Binary
        • Optical Binary // psuedo-binary.
  • Substellar/Nonstellar level
    • Free-Floating Brown Dwarf
    • Cluster Planet
    • Double Planet
  • Cloud / Belt / Cluster
    • Oort Cloud
    • Debree Field / Debree Disk / Dust Disk
      • Cometary Stream / Comet Trail
      • Asteroid Belt
        • Super Asteroid Belt (theoretical) // theorized of up to Mars-sized objects to exist.
        • Vulcanoid Belt (theoretical)
        • Centaur (group)
        • Trans-Neptunian Belt
          • Kuiper Belt / Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt
          • Scattered Disk
        • Gap // Gaps within an asteroid belt.
          • Kirkwood Gap
          • Kuiper Cliff
    • Asteroid Cluster
      • Trojan Cluster / Lagrange Cluster
      • Coorbital Asteroid // tracking note, for CarpD.
      • Asteroid Family
        • Hirayama Family
      • Planet-Crosser
    • Meteor Shower
    • Artificial Debree / Space Junk // man-made objects.
  • Planetary Satellite / Ring
    • Satellite / Moon
      • Ring System
        • Tenuous Ring
        • Tenuous Gas Ring // ie. Io's sulfur gas around Jupiter.
      • Ring Gap // Gaps within a ring system.
        • Division
        • Spoke
  • Stellar System Region
    • Torch Orbit / Epistellar
    • Inner Region
      • Habitability Zone (HZ)
      • Soot Line
      • Ice Line / Snow Line / Frost Line
    • Outer Region
    • Heliosphere
      • Heliopause
      • Heliosheath
  • Space / Medium
    • Coronal Region
    • Interplanetary Region
    • Interstellar Region
  • Nebula Cloud
    • Interstellar Cloud
      • Molecular Cloud
        • High Velocity Cloud (HVC)
        • Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC)
          • Dense Molecular Cloud / Dark Nebula
        • High Latitude Diffuse Molecular Cloud / Infrared Cirrus
        • HI Region
      • Diffuse Nebula
        • Emission Nebula / Bright Nebula
        • Reflective Nebula
        • HII Region
          • Bok Globule
            • Cometary Globule (CG)
    • Stellar Cloud
      • Stellar Remnant Cloud
        • Planetary Nebula (PN)
        • Supernova Remnant (SNR)
          • Plerion / Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN)
        • Hypernova Remnant
    • Stellar Dust Cloud
      • Accretion Disk
      • Proto-Planetary Nebula / Proplyds
      • Dust Disk

Individual Object

  • Stellar
  • Population Type // uncertain on how to proceed on population list.
    • Population I Star
    • Population II Star
    • Population III Star (theoretical)
    • Metal-rich Star
    • Metal-poor Star
      • Carbon Star
        • Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Star (CEMP) [3][4]
    • Bulge Star
      • Red Clump Giant Star (RCG)
    • Thick Disk Star
    • Thin Disk Star
    • Halo Star
    • Outbound Star
      • Hyper Velocity Star (HVS)

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  • Proto-Star
    • High-Mass Proto-Star
    • Young Stellar Object (YSO)
    • Zero Age Main-Sequence Star (ZAMS)

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  • Variable Star
    • Intrinsic
    • Extrinsic

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  • Substellar
    • Compact Star / Degenerate Star
      • Stellar Core Remnant
        • White Dwarf (wD)
          • Pre-White Dwarf
          • Regular White Dwarf
        • Black Dwarf (theoretical)
      • Nuetron Star (NS)
        • Protoneutron Star (PNS)
        • Pulsar
        • Magnetar
        • Q-Star / Gray Hole (theoretical)
      • Quark Star
      • Exotic Star
        • Preon Star (theoretical)
      • Black Hole (BH)
        • Micro Black Hole
        • Stellar Mass Black Hole
        • Super Massive Black Hole
    • Magnetospheric Eternally Collapsing Object (MECO) (theoretical)
    • Substellar Remnant
      • Still Born Star / Drained Star // ie. EF Eri's companion.
    • Brown Dwarf (BD)
    • Massive Compact Halo Object (MACHO) // tracking, CarpD.
  • Stellar Explosion
    • Nova
      • Reoccuring Nova // tracking, CarpD.
    • Supernova
      • Nuetrino Star [5]
      • Supernova Type I
      • Supernova Type II
        • Hypernova / Collapsar
        • X-Ray Flash (XRF) // tracking, CarpD.
        • Gamma Ray Burst (GRB)
      • Supernova Type III (pecular) // tracking, CarpD.

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  • Nonstellar
    • Planetary
      • Proto-Planet
      • Planetary Mass Objet (PMO) / Planemo
      • Free Floating Planet / Floater / Rogue Planet
      • Extragalactic Planet (unconfirmable)
      • Extrasolar Planet (ESP)
        • Extrasolar Giant Planet (EGP)
          • Hot Jupiter / Epistellar Gas Giant / Pegasid
          • Jupiter Twin
        • Hot Neptunian
        • Super Earth / Super Terrestrial
        • Brown Dwarf Planet
        • Pulsar Planet
      • Hypothetical Planet
        • Chthonian Planet (theoretical)
        • Ocean World (theoretical)
        • Cannonball World (theoretical)
        • Carbon Planet (theoretical)
        • Trojan Planet (theoretical)
        • Earth Twin (theoretical)
      • Solar System Planet
        • Gas Giant Planet
        • Ice Giant Planet
        • Terrestrial Planet
    • Subplanetary / Minor Planet
      • Small Solar System Body (SSSB)
        • Satellite / Moon
          • Earth size moon (theoretical)
          • Trojan Moon
          • Ringlete
        • Planetoid
          • Vulcanoid (theoretical)
          • Asteroid
            • Main-Belt Asteroid
          • Centaur Object
          • Ice Dwarf // uncertain on location, CarpD.
          • Trans-Neptunian Object (TNO)
            • Kuiper Belt Object (KBO)
            • Scattered Disk Object (SDO)
            • Oort Cloud Object (OCO)
        • Dwarf Planet
        • Planetesimal
          • Cometary
            • Comet
              • Super Comet (theoretical)
              • Sungrazer Comet // usually end their life by crashing into the Sun.
              • Short-Period Comet
              • Long-Period Comet
              • Hyperbolic Comet // theorized to leave the Solar System.
          • Meteoroid

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    • Star types (dwarf, subdwarf, WR, TZO, flare star)

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    • Dust & Gas (zodiacal, dust rings)
    • Artificial (debree, stations, platforms, space probes, etc.)

Atomic

  • the next level would probably be atoms and molecular compounds and so on.

Hope this helps...


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WikiProjects

Project Members Assessment
Space 10 No
Astronomy 2 No
Astronomical objects 35 Yes
Constellations 9 No
Martian Geography 7 Yes
Telescopes 2 No
Space exploration 5 Yes
Spacecraft 0 No
Launch vehicles 6 No
Mars Spacecraft 9 No
Space missions 23 No
Space travellers 2 No
Unmanned space missions 9 No
Timeline of spaceflight 4 No
Space Colonization 11 No
Moon 4 Yes

Member count current as of 3 November 2006.

  • WikiProjects - Directory of Space-related WikiProjects
  • Members - Complete member lists of all Space-related WikiProjects


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Portals


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Members: Astronomy

  1. Abyssoft (talk) I've principly been focusing on Asteroids (SSSBs) and trying to gather, update information and the displayed templates for them. I've also participated in the 'dwarf planet' debates.
  2. AMcWhatever I can do to help...
  3. Ardric47 I am by now probably a de facto minor participant, having done some lists and things with sourcing.
  4. AstroHurricane001(Talk) I'll work on improving and creating articles, as well as adding more info and references.
  5. Awolf002. Count me in! Up to now I just worked on biographies (crater eponyms) and this project looks good.
  6. BlytheG. As a high school student who plans to be an astonomer and science author, this is a great opportunity to both improve my range of knowledge as well as Wikipedia's info.
  7. B00P Working on some non-profound "Beginner" stuff.
  8. Branson03
  9. Chaos syndrome. Taking an extended break.
  10. Ckatz helping out where I can!
  11. Dr. Submillimeter I work on extragalactic pages,with particular focus on nearby galaxies.
  12. Eric Forste (talk) I feel as if this is the first wikiproject I've joined, so I'm gonna sign my name to it. All y'all that got this thing started up could go ahead and sign yours above mine (or we could just follow the alphabetical convention). Right now I'm working in a sandbox on adding the infobox to Proteus and then I'll be working on Nereid if no one beats me to it.
  13. Eurocommuter Contributing to trans-Neptunian and irregular satellites-related articles with diagrams and references.
  14. Fournax So much to choose from. I think I'll start on stars.
  15. GW_Simulations|User Page | Talk | Contribs | E-mail
  16. JamesHoadley (talk) It seems I'm helping out at the moment, so I may as well put my name down. Mostly I work on solar system planets and moons, deep sky stuff (nebulae, galaxies) and spacecraft (not in this topic).
  17. Jim Cornmell (talk) I'd like to help from the amateur astronomers perspective, as and when I can.
  18. Jyril. I've been creating asteroid and extrasolar planet articles for a long time. (Why I haven't signed earlier?)
  19. Legolost I'm good with astronomy, so count me in!
  20. Luka Krstulović, greetings from Croatia! I wasn't really working on Astronomical objects articles here, but I love astronomy, and hope I could help you with what's needed.
  21. Merovingian {T C @} Working on "minor planets" (a.k.a. asteroids) here and there.
  22. Nbound I'll do what I can to help :)
  23. Nebular110 I don't know how I'm going to find the time but I would love to help.
  24. NerdyNSK I have studied some Planetology at the Open University (UK). It's fun.
  25. Nicholas. I'm here too.
  26. Orionist. I'm in! sky is the limit!
  27. Riffsyphon1024, Been working on Mars features but can help here also.
  28. RJH (talk). These days I'm focusing on the work list core topics, as well as on nearby stars; trying to bring pages up to GA status. (Any help appreciated!) Still occasionally do work on lunar features, and re-check the mass of crater pages. :-)
  29. Rursus. I'll see what I can do, when I discover some knowledge missing ... Otherwise I'll just proofread here and there...
  30. shaggy Mostly working on cleaning up articles on trans-Neptunian objects and centaurs. Also, creating articles for notable TNOs and centaurs.
  31. siafu Working on maintaining the pages on the planets recently.
  32. Uber nemo (talk). I'll sign my name alphabetically. I am currently working on galaxy stubs and infoboxless articles.
  33. Urhixidur (talk). I've been banging away at asteroids, mostly.
  34. Volcanopele (talk). I've mostly worked on Saturnian satellite articles, particularly Enceladus, but I plan on working on any outer solar system satellite article that requires my attention.
  35. WilliamKF (talk). I've been working on Galaxies, Globular Clusters, and Nebulas. More recently using the AWB. Leave me a note if you need any repetitive tasks done with AWB.
  36. Mike Peel. I'm currently doing a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics, and will help where I can. I also run Peelbot, with AWB as a backend.
  37. Planemo 13:51, 10 December 2006 (UTC). Mostly focusing on Solar system.
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