List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2269

Callirrhoe (/kəˈlɪrɵʊiː/ kə-LIRR-o-ee; Greek: Καλλιρρόη) also known as Jupiter XVII (17) is one of Jupiter’s outermost named natural satellites. It is an irregular moon that orbits in a retrograde direction. […]

Comet Borrelly or Borrelly’s Comet (official designation: 19P/Borrelly) is a periodic comet which was visited by the spacecraft Deep Space 1 in 2001.

21 Lutetia is a large main-belt asteroid of an unusual spectral type. It measures about 100 kilometers in diameter (120 km along its major axis). It was discovered in 1852 […]

Setebos (/ˈsɛtɨbʌs/ SET-ə-bus) is one of the outermost retrograde irregular satellites of Uranus. It was discovered on 18 July 1999 by John J. Kavelaars et al. and provisionally designated S/1999 […]

Themisto (/θɨˈmɪstoʊ/; from Greek: Θεμιστώ) also known as Jupiter XVIII is a small prograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered in 1975 lost and then rediscovered in 2000.

Alnilam is a large blue supergiant star in the constellation of Orion. It has a Bayer designation of Epsilon Orionis (ε Ori). Its Flamsteed designation is 46 Orionis.It is the […]

51826 Kalpanachawla (2001 OB34) is an asteroid named for Indian-born astronaut Kalpana Chawla who was killed in the STS-107 (Columbia) space shuttle reentry disaster on February 1 2003. 51826 Kalpanachawla […]

The stellar atmosphere is the outer region of the volume of a star lying above the stellar core radiation zone and convection zone. It is divided into several regions of […]

2004 FH is a near-Earth asteroid that was discovered on March 15 2004 by the NASA-funded LINEAR asteroid survey. The object is roughly 30 metres in diameter and passed just […]

A-type asteroids are relatively uncommon inner-belt asteroids that have a strong broad 1 µm olivine feature and a very reddish spectrum shortwards of 0.7 µm. They are thought to come […]