Glossary of astronomy

This page is a glossary of astronomy. This scientific study is concerned with celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth. The field of astronomy has an extensive vocabulary and a significant amount of jargon.

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Syrtis Major (center) is a prominent dark albedo feature on Mars

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Sample evolutionary tracks for stars of different mass

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The parallax shift of a star at a distance of one parsec as seen from the Earth. Not to scale

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See also

For a list of words relating to astronomy, see the en:Astronomy category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

References

  1. Silaj, J.; Jones, C. E.; Tycner, C.; Sigut, T. A. A.; Smith, A. D. (March 2010), "A Systematic Study of Hα Profiles of Be Stars", The Astrophysical Journal Supplement 187 (1, pp. 228–250), Bibcode:2010ApJS..187..228S, doi:10.1088/0067-0049/187/1/228
  2. Salaris, Maurizio; Cassisi, Santi (2005), Evolution of stars and stellar populations, John Wiley and Sons, p. 110, ISBN 0-470-09220-3, retrieved 2012-02-29
  3. "Components of the Milky Way", Galaxies (Center for Computational Physics in Hawaii), retrieved 2012-02-27
  4. Jaschek, Carlos; Jaschek, Mercedes (1990), The Classification of Stars, Cambridge University Press, p. 257, ISBN 0-521-38996-8

External links

Look up Appendix:List of astronomical terms in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.