Astronomy

Articles about stars, planets, space and the universe.

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George's Secret Key to the Universe

Geostationary orbit

Geosynchronous orbit

Gertrude (crater)

Giant impact hypothesis

Giant impact hypothesis: origin of the Moon

Giant Magellan Telescope

Giant star

Gihō calendar

Ginga (satellite)

Ginga (Astro‑C): Japanese X‑ray Astronomy Satellite

Gliese 581

Gliese 581 c

Gliese 667 Cc

Gliese 667 Cc — potentially habitable super-Earth in the Gliese 667 system

Gliese 876

Gliese 876 — nearby red dwarf with a resonant multiplanet system

Globular cluster

Globular cluster

GN-z11

GN-z11 — an early, distant galaxy

Gould Belt

Gravitational lensing

Gravitational lensing

Gravity assist

GRB 970228

GRB 970228 — first gamma‑ray burst with a detected afterglow

Great Attractor

Great Attractor: a nearby gravitational concentration in the local universe

Great Comet of 1811

Great Comet of 1811 (C/1811 F1)

Great Dark Spot

Great Observatories program

Great Red Spot

Great Red Spot (Jupiter's long‑lived storm)

Great Wall

Great White Spot

Great White Spot (Saturn): periodic planet‑encircling storms

Greip (moon)

Greip (Saturn moon)

Grus (constellation)

H I region

H I region (neutral atomic hydrogen cloud)

H II region

Habitable zone

Habitable zone (Goldilocks zone)

Halimede (moon)

Halley's Comet

Harpalyke (moon)

Hati (moon)

Hati (moon) — Saturn XLIII, a small retrograde irregular satellite

Haumea (dwarf planet)

Hayabusa

Hayabusa (Japanese asteroid sample-return spacecraft)

Hegemone (moon)

Hegemone (Jupiter XXXIX): an irregular retrograde moon of Jupiter

Helene (moon)

Helene (moon of Saturn)

Helike (moon)

Heliocentrism

Heliocentrism

Heliocentrism: The Sun-centered model of the Solar System

Heliocentrism is the model that places the Sun near the center of the Solar System. This article outlines its principles, historical development, evidence, and how it differs from

Heliosphere

Helix nebula

Helix Nebula (NGC 7293): a nearby planetary nebula in Aquarius

Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall

Hermippe (moon)

Hermippe: Jupiter's irregular moon (Jupiter XXX)

Herschel Space Observatory

Herschel Space Observatory: ESA's Far-Infrared and Submillimetre Telescope

Herse (moon)

Herse (moon of Jupiter)

Hertzsprung–Russell diagram

Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (H-R diagram)