List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2275

A super-Jupiter is an astronomical object that’s more massive than the planet Jupiter. For example companions at the planet–brown dwarf borderline have been called super-Jupiters such as around the star […]

Soft X-ray transients (SXT) are composed of some type of compact object and some type of normal low mass star (i.e. a star with a mass of some fraction of […]

Prometheus is an inner satellite of Saturn. It was discovered in 1980 (some time before October 25) from photos taken by the Voyager 1 probe and was provisionally designated S/1980 […]

GJ 1061 is a small red dwarf approximately 12 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Horologium. Even though it is a relatively nearby it is very dim with […]

Titania is the largest of the moons of Uranus and the eighth largest moon in the Solar System at a diameter of 1578 kilometres (981 mi). Discovered by William Herschel […]

Messier 82 (also known as NGC 3034 Cigar Galaxy or M82) is the prototype nearby starburst galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. The starburst galaxy […]

The oxygen-burning process is a set of nuclear fusion reactions that take place in massive stars that have used up the lighter elements in their cores. It occurs at temperatures […]

V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) is a red variable star in the constellation Monoceros about 20000 light years (6 kpc) from the Sun. The previously unknown star was observed in early […]

Phoebe (/ˈfiːbiː/; Greek: Φοίβη) is an irregular satellite of Saturn a little over 200 km in diameter. It is thought to be a captured planetesimal from the Kuiper belt. It […]

24 Themis is one of the largest main-belt asteroids. It is also the largest member of the Themistian asteroid family. It was discovered by Annibale de Gasparis on April 5 […]