Astronomy

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Invariable plane

Invariable plane of a planetary system

Io (moon)

Iocaste (moon)

Iocaste (Jupiter XXIV) — a small irregular moon of Jupiter

Iris nebula

Irregular galaxy

Isonoe (moon)

Isonoe: Jupiter's irregular retrograde moon in the Carme group

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Janus (moon)

Jarnsaxa (moon)

Jarnsaxa (Saturnian moon)

Jikiken

Jikiken — Japanese scientific satellite (launched 16 September 1978)

Jōkyō calendar

Jōkyō calendar (Jōkyō-reki): Japan's Edo-period lunisolar calendar

Julian day

Julian year

Juliet (moon)

Juliet (Uranian moon)

July 4

July 4 (date)

Juno (spacecraft)

Juno (NASA spacecraft) — Jupiter orbiter mission

Jupiter

Jupiter — the largest planet in the Solar System

Kale (moon)

Kale (Jupiter XXXVII): an irregular moon of Jupiter

Kallichore (moon)

Kallichore (Jupiter XLIV) — irregular moon of Jupiter

Kalyke (moon)

Kalyke (Jupiter XXIII): an irregular retrograde moon of Jupiter

Kari (moon)

Kari (moon) — Saturn XLV, an irregular retrograde satellite

Kármán line

Kármán line — boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space

Keck Observatory

W. M. Keck Observatory

Kepler (spacecraft)

Kepler-186f

Kepler-186f — an Earth-sized exoplanet in the habitable zone

Kepler-22b

Kepler-22b: a transiting exoplanet in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star

Kepler-438b

Kepler-452b

Kepler-62e

Kepler-62e — Super-Earth in the Habitable Zone of Kepler-62

Kepler-62f

Kepler-62f — potentially habitable super-Earth

Kepler's laws

Kepler's laws of planetary motion

Kepler's Supernova

Kerberos (moon)

Kirkwood gap

Kirkwood gaps

Kitt Peak National Observatory

Kiviuq (moon)

Kore (moon)

Kraken Mare

Kraken Mare — Titan's largest hydrocarbon sea

Kuiper belt

Kuiper Belt: the distant trans-Neptunian region of icy bodies

KW Sagittarii

KY Cygni

KY Cygni — a very large red supergiant in Cygnus

Kyokko

Kyokko — Japanese artificial satellite launched in 1978

La Silla Observatory

La Silla Observatory — ESO astronomical site in Chile

Lacerta

Lacerta (constellation)

Lagoon Nebula

Lagrange point

Lakes of Titan

Lalande 21185

Lalande 21185 — nearby red dwarf in Ursa Major