List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2112

1743 Schmidt (4109 P-L) is a Main-belt asteroid that was discovered on September 24 1960 at Palomar by C.J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld. It was named after Baltic […]

Fast Low-Ionization Emission Region or FLIER is the name for volumes of gas with low ionization near the symmetry axis of many planetary nebulae. Red in color they bolt out […]

9885 Linux is an asteroid discovered on October 12 1994 by Spacewatch. The asteroid is named after the Linux operating system kernel.

The Cartwheel Galaxy (also known as ESO 350-40) is a lenticular galaxy and ring galaxy about 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. It is an estimated 150000 light-years […]

HD 108874 is a yellow dwarf star (spectral type G5 V) in the constellation of Coma Berenices. It is 200 light years from Earth and has two extrasolar planets that […]

Dioretsa (1999 LD31) is a centaur discovered in 1999 notable for its unusual orbit which is highly eccentric and retrograde. Its name is the word ‘asteroid’ spelled backwards to reflect […]

4349 Tibúrcio is an asteroid. It is the asteroid discovered in the smallest angular distance from the sun ( 535 degree ). It was discovered as 1989LX by Werner Landgraf […]

8256 Shenzhou is an asteroid named after the Chinese Shenzhou spacecraft.

1761 Edmondson is a main-belt asteroid discovered March 30 1952 by the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn Indiana. It is named for astronomer Frank K. Edmondson […]

B-V colour is one of the two colour indices in the UBV photometric system.Astronomers measure the amount of light a star gives off in different colours. As a result of […]