Astronomy

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Australian Aboriginal astronomy

Autonoe (moon)

Autonoe (Jupiter XXVIII)

Axial tilt

Axis of rotation

Baby boom galaxy

Barnard's galaxy

Barnard's Galaxy (NGC 6822): a nearby barred irregular galaxy

Barnard's Loop

Barnard's Loop — the large emission arc in Orion

Barnard's star

Barycenter

Bayer designation

Beagle 2

Bebhionn (moon)

Bebhionn (moon of Saturn)

Belinda (moon)

Belinda — an inner moon of Uranus

BepiColombo

Bergelmir (moon)

Bergelmir — a small irregular moon of Saturn

Berlin Observatory

Berlin Observatory

Berlin Observatory (Berliner Sternwarte)

Historic astronomical institution in Berlin, founded from early-18th scientific societies; developed observational, timekeeping and calendrical work and evolved through several sit

Bernard Lovell

Sir Bernard Lovell — pioneering English physicist and radio astronomer

Bestla (moon)

Beta Centauri

Beta Centauri (Hadar, Agena) — bright triple star in Centaurus

Beta Columbae

Betelgeuse

Bianca (moon)

Bianca (Uranian moon)

Big Bang

Big Bang (cosmology)

Binary pulsar

Binary star

Black dwarf

Black dwarf (stellar remnant)

Black Eye galaxy

Black hole

Black hole

Black hole: formation, structure, detection, and significance

An overview of black holes: their structure, formation channels, observational methods, theoretical properties like Hawking radiation, and their role in astrophysics and open quest

Blazar

Blue shift

Blueshift: the Doppler shift toward shorter wavelengths

Bolometric magnitude

Bond albedo

Boötes

Brown dwarf

Bya (unit)

Bya (unit) — “billion years ago” in geology and astronomy

C-type asteroid

Caelum

Caelum (constellation)

Caesar's Comet

Caesar's Comet (Comet C/-43 K1)

Caldwell catalogue

Caldwell catalogue: a complementary list of bright deep‑sky objects for observers

Caliban (moon)

Callirrhoe (moon)

Callirrhoe (Jupiter XVII) — irregular moon of Jupiter

Callisto (moon)

Calypso (moon)

Camelopardalis

Camelopardalis — the faint northern constellation representing the giraffe

Cancer (constellation)

Canes Venatici

Canes Venatici — the Hunting Dogs constellation

Canis Major

Canis Major: Southern Constellation Containing Sirius and VY Canis Majoris

Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy