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Index A
Accretion 3
Adrastra 3
Albedo 3
Alpha Aurigae (see: Capella) Alpha Centauri 3
Alpha Cygni (see: Deneb) Alpha Crucis 3
Alpha Geminorum
(see: Castor)
Alpha Lyrae (see: Vega) Alpha Orionis
(see: Betelgeuse) Alpha Ursa Minoris
(see: Polaris) Alpha Ursae Majoris
(see: Sirius) Altair 4
Andromeda 4 Andromeda Galaxy 4 Angstrom 4 Antipodal point 4 Apastron (see: Apse) Aphelion (see: Apse) Apoapsis (see: Apse) Apogee (see: Apse) Apojove (see: Apse) Apollo group 5 Apollo project 5 Apse, apsis 5
Ariel 6
Aristotle 6 Armstrong, Neil
(see: Apollo project) Asteroid number 6 Asteroids 6–7 Astronaut 7 Astronomers
(see: Aristotle; Copernicus; Einstein; Galileo; Halley; Hawking; Herschel, Caroline; Herschel, (Frederik) Willliam; Hoyle; Hubble; Kepler; Ptolemy)
Astronomical unit (AU) 7 Astronomy 7 Atmosphere 7 Atmosphere, the 8 Aurora 9
Axis, axes 9 B
Barnard’s Star 9
Beta Centauri 9
Beta Oriois (see: Rigel) Betelgeuse 9
Big Bang 9
Binary star 10
Black body 10
Black dwarf 10
Black hole 10
Blue giant 10 Brightest stars 11 Brown dwarf 11
C
Callisto 11
Capella 11
Cassini 11
Cassini Division (see: Cassini) CassiopeiaA 11
Castor 12
Ceres 12
Chondrite 12 Chromosphere 12 Cluster of galaxies 12 Coma 12
Comet 12–13
Conjunction 13 Constellation 13 Copernicus 13
Core (see: Accretion; Earth; Helium star)
Corona 14 Cosmic rays 14 Cosmonaut
(see: Astronaut; Soyuz) Cosmos 14
Crab Nebula 14
Crater 15
Crescent Moon (see: Moon, the)
Crust 15 D
Deep Space Network (DSN) 15
Deimos 15 Deneb 15 Diamond ring 15 Dione 15
Disk 15
Dog star (see: Sirius) Dust 15
Dwarf star 15
E
Earth 16–17
Earth history 17
Earth orbit 18
e=mc2 (see: Einstein) Eccentric 18
Eclipse 18
Einstein 19
Enceladus (see: Saturn) Encke’s Comet 19 ESA (European Space
Agency) (see: Giotto; Hubble Space Telescope; International Space Station)
Eta Carinae 19
Europa 19
Evening star (see: Venus) European Space Agency
(see: Giotto; Hubble Space Telescope; International Space Station)
Exosphere
(see: Atmosphere, the)
Expanding Universe 19 Explorer 19
F
F Ring (see: Saturn) Filament 20
Flare 20 Fluorescence 20 Full Moon 20 Fusion 20
G
Galaxy 20–21
Galilean moons 21
Galileo 21
Galileo probe 21
Ganymede 21
Gas giants 21
Gemini missions 22 Geostationary orbit 22 Giant planet (see: Gas giants) Giant star 22
Gibbous 22
Giotto 22
Glenn, John
(see: Mercury project) Goddard Space
Flight Center 22 Gravity
(see: Accretion; Binary star; Black hole; Earth; Expanding Universe; Galaxy; Jupiter; Mass; Orbit; Precession; Solar System; Sun, the; Weight)
Great Dark Spot 22 Guide star 22
Meteor Crater (see: Crater) Meteoroid 29
Meteorite 29
Milankovitch
(see: Earth orbit)
Milky Way 29
Mimas (see: Crater; Saturn) Minor planets 29
Mir 29
Miranda 29
Mons 29
Moon, the 30–31
Moon, phases 31
Moons (satellites) 32 Morning star (see: Venus)
N
NASA 32
Nanometer (see: Angstrom) National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
(see: NASA)
Nebula, nebulae 32
Neptune 32
North Pole Star (see: Polaris) North Star (see: Polaris) Northern Lights (see: Aurora) Nova 33
O
Omega Centauri 33 Orbit 33
P
Pandora
(see: Shepherd moon)
Parsec 34
Penumbra 34 Periapsis 34 Periastron (see: Apse) Perigee 34
Perihelion 34
Perijove (see: Apse) Phobos 34
Photosphere 34
Pioneer 34
Planet 34
Planetesimal 34
Plasma 34
Plate tectonics (see: Earth) Pluto 34
Polaris, Pole star 34 Precession 34
Prometheus
(see: Shepherd moon) Prominence 35
Ptolemy 35
Pulsar (see: Star)
Q
Quasar 35 R
Radiation
(see: Accretion; Big Bang; Black body; Fluorescence; Herschel, (Frederik) William; Quasar; van Allen belts)
Red dwarf 35
Red giant 35
Relativity (see: Einstein) Rhea (see: Saturn)
Rigel 35
Rocky planets 36
S
Satellite 36
Saturn 36
Saturn V rocket 36 Seas (see: Mare)
Shepherd moon 36 Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet 36–37
Shooting star 37
Sigma Octanis (see: Polaris) Sirius 37
Skylab 37
Solar System 38–39 Solarwind 40
Southern Lights (see: Aurora) Soyuz 40
Space exploration
(see: Apollo project; Cassini; Deep Space Network; Explorer; Galileo probe; Gemini missions; Giotto; Goddard Space Center; Hubble Space Telescope; International Space Station; Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Johnson Space Center; Kennedy Space Center; Luna; Lunar Module; Lunar Orbiter; Magellan; Mariner; Mercury project; Mir; NASA; Pioneer; Saturn V rocket; Skylab; Soyuz; Space Shuttle; Surveyor; Viking; Voyager)
Space Shuttle 40 Speed of light 40 Star 40–41 Stellar 41 Stratosphere
(see: Atmosphere, the) Summer Triangle
(see: Deneb)
Sun, the 42–43
Sunspot 44
Supergiant star (see: Polaris) Superior planets 44 Supernova 44
Surveyor 44
T
Telescope (see: Galileo; Herschel, (Frederik) William; Hubble Space Telescope)
Tethys (see: Saturn) Thermosphere
(see: Atmosphere, the) Titan 44
Triton 45 Troposphere
(see: Atmosphere, the)
U
Umbra 45 Universe 45 Uranus 45
V
Valles Marineris 45 Van Allen belts 45 Vega 45
Venus 46
Viking 47 Voyager 47
W
Weight 47 White dwarf 47
Hadar (see: Beta Centauri) Hale-Bopp Comet 22 Halley, Edmond 22 Halley’s Comet 22 Hawking, Stephen 23 Helene 23
Heliosphere 23 Helium star 23 Herschel, Caroline 23 Herschel,
(Frederik) William 23 Hipparchus (see: Ptolemy) Hoyle, Sir Fred 23 Hubble, Edwin 23 Hubble Space Telescope
(HST) 23 Hyperion 24
Iapetus 24
Impact crater (see: Crater) Implode (see: Black hole) Inferiorplanets 24 Ionosphere
(see: Atmosphere, the;
Aurora; Solar wind) Interstellar (see: Stellar) International Space Station (ISS) 24
Io 24
Janus 24
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(JPL) 24
Johnson Space Center
(JSC) 24 Jovian 24
Jovian planet 24 Jupiter 25
Kelvin (K) 26 Kennedy Space Center
(KSC) 26
Kepler, Johannes 26 Kuiperbelt 26
Light-year 26 Local group 26 Luna 26
Lunar eclipse 26 Lunarmodule 26 Lunar orbiter 26
M
M 26
Magellan 26
Magnetism, magnetic field
(see: Aurora; Earth; Earth orbit; Jupiter; Magnetosphere; Neptune)
Magnetosphere 27 Magnitude 27
Mantle (see: Accretion; Earth) Mare 27
Mariner 27
Marius (see: Galilean moons) Mars 28
Mass 29
Mercury 29
Mercury project 29 Mesosphere
(see: Atmosphere, the) Messier, C. J. (see: M) Meteor 29
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