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Canis Minor

Canopus

Canopus — Alpha Carinae, the bright star of the southern sky

Capricornus

Capricornus — the Sea‑Goat constellation

Carina (constellation)

Carina nebula

Carina Nebula (NGC 3372): overview, structure, and scientific importance

Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan: Astronomer, Science Communicator, and Advocate for Exploration

Carme (moon)

Carme — irregular retrograde moon of Jupiter

Carme group

Carme group — irregular retrograde moons of Jupiter

Carpo (moon)

Cartwheel galaxy

Cassini–Huygens

Cassiopeia

Cassiopeia (constellation)

Cave nebula

Celestia

Celestia

Celestia — 3D real-time space simulation software

Celestia is a free, open-source 3D astronomy program that lets users travel through a realistic virtual universe, view stars and planets in three dimensions, and create scripted to

Celestial equator

Celestial equator: definition, geometry, and astronomical role

Celestial navigation

Celestial sphere

Celestial sphere — concept and role in astronomy and navigation

Centaur (planetoid)

Centaurus

Centaurus: Southern Constellation with Nearby Stars and Deep-Sky Objects

Centaurus A

Centaurus A (NGC 5128) — a nearby active radio galaxy

Cepheid variable

Cepheus (constellation)

Ceres (dwarf planet)

Cetus

CfA2 Great Wall

CfA2 Great Wall — large galaxy filament discovered in the CfA redshift survey

Chaldene (moon)

Chaldene — an irregular moon of Jupiter

Chamaeleon

Chamaeleon (constellation)

Chandra Deep Field South

Chandrasekhar limit

Chandrasekhar limit

Chandrayaan-1

Chandrayaan-1: India's first mission to the Moon

Chandrayaan-2

Chandrayaan-2 — India's second lunar mission by ISRO

Charles Messier

Charon (moon)

Charon — moon of Pluto

Chi Cygni

Chi Cygni — a Mira-type pulsating red giant in Cygnus

Chiron (hypothetical moon)

Chiron (hypothetical moon of Saturn)

Circinus

Circinus (constellation)

Circinus galaxy

Circinus galaxy — a nearby Seyfert galaxy behind the Milky Way

Circular orbit

Cloverleaf quasar

Cloverleaf quasar (H1413+117) — a four-image gravitationally lensed quasar

Coalsack nebula

Colonization of Mars

Colonization of Mars: prospects, challenges, and approaches

Columba (constellation)

Coma Berenices

Comet

Comet

Comets are small icy bodies that orbit the Sun, developing glowing comas and tails when heated. They originate in distant reservoirs and reveal information about the early solar sy

Comet Borrelly

Comet Borrelly (19P/Borrelly)

Comet Hale–Bopp

Comet Hale–Bopp (C/1995 O1) — the Great Comet of 1997

Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9

Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 and the 1994 Impacts on Jupiter