List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2286

Callisto /kəˈlɪstoʊ/ (Jupiter IV) is a moon of the planet Jupiter. It was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei. It is the third-largest moon in the Solar System and the […]

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a nearby galaxy and a satellite of the Milky Way. At a distance of slightly less than 50 kiloparsecs (≈163000 light-years) the LMC is […]

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth of that of the Sun but […]

433 Eros is an S-type near-Earth asteroid approximately 34.4×11.2×11.2 kilometres (21.4×7.0×7.0 mi) in size the second-largest near-Earth asteroid after 1036 Ganymed. It was discovered in 1898 and was the first […]

70 Virginis (abbreviated 70 Vir) is a yellow dwarf star approximately 59 light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It is rather unusually bright for its spectral type and may be […]

61 Cygni sometimes called Bessel’s Star or Piazzi’s Flying Star is a binary star system in the constellation Cygnus. It consists of a pair of K-type dwarf stars that orbit […]

Venus is the second planet from the Sun orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. It has no natural satellite. It is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. […]

Vega (α Lyr α Lyrae Alpha Lyrae) is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra the fifth brightest star in the night sky and the second brightest star in the […]

Umbriel is a moon of Uranus discovered on October 24 1851 by William Lassell. It was discovered at the same time as Ariel and named after a character in Alexander […]

Tau Ceti (τ Cet τ Ceti) is a star in the constellation Cetus that is spectrally similar to the Sun although it has only about 78% of the Sun’s mass. […]