List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2186

Daphnis (/ˈdæfnɨs/ DAF-nis; Greek: Δάφνις) is an inner satellite of Saturn. It is also known as Saturn XXXV; its provisional designation was S/2005 S 1. Daphnis is about 8 kilometres […]

Leo A ( also known as Leo III ) is an irregular galaxy that is part of the Local Group. It lies 2.25 million light-years from Earth. This galaxy was […]

36446 is also a zip code of Fulton Alabama.36446 Cinodapistoia is an asteroid originally designated 2000 QV discovered on August 22 2000 by Luciano Tesi and Andrea Boattini at San […]

NGC 3314 is a pair of overlapping spiral galaxies between 117 and 140 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. This unique alignment gives astronomers the opportunity to measure the […]

3467 Bernheim is an asteroid. It was discovered on September 26 1981 by Norman G. Thomas of Lowell Observatory and was named to honour Robert Burnham Jr. Thomas’ former co-worker […]

Fenrir (/ˈfɛnrɪər/ FEN-reer) or Saturn XLI (provisional designation S/2004 S 16) is a natural satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard David C. Jewitt Jan Kleyna […]

5239 Reiki is an asteroid named after Reiki Kushida a Japanese astronomer.

Rho Cassiopeiae (/ˌroʊ kæsiəˈpiː.iː/; ρ Cas ρ Cassiopeiae) is a yellow hypergiant star in the constellation Cassiopeia. It is about 8200 light-years (2500 pc) away from Earth yet can still […]

(148209) 2000 CR105 also written as (148209) 2000 CR105 is about the seventh-most-distant known object in the Solar System. Considered a detached object it orbits the Sun in a highly […]

4617 Zadunaisky is an asteroid named in honor of Argentinian astronomer and mathematician Pedro E. Zadunaisky.Pedro Elias Zadunaisky (1918-7 October 2009) was an astronomer who plotted the orbit of Saturn’s […]