Page 3 - Space dictionary by Futura-Sciences

Alphabetical index

Exo-Earth Although no clear definition exists, an exo-Earth is ...	Full Moon The full Moon is a phase of the Moon that occurs when the ...
Gibbous moon The Moon makes one complete rotation of the Earth in 29.5 ...	Great Red Spot The Great Red Spot (GRS) is a gigantic cyclone that can be ...
Habitable zone The habitable zone (HZ) around a star was defined by Hart ...	Hartley 2 comet In 1986, the year of the grand return of Halley's comet, the ...
Hawking radiation Hawking radiation postulates the permanent creation of ...	Herbig-Haro object Astrophysical objects associated with the names of Guillermo ...
Hercules globular cluster The Hercules globular cluster was discovered in 1714 par E. ...	Hertzsprung-Russell diagram The Hertzsprung-Russel diagram is the classification of ...
Hyades The Hyades open cluster contains 140 stars of which the age ...	Hyakutake's comet At the beginning of 1996, the astronomical community only ...
Hydra constellation The constellation of Hydra, from the Latin Hydra, a female ...	Ikeya-Seki comet Discovered separately on 18 September 1965 by the Japanese ...
International Space Station Since the 1st flight by the Russian Yuri Gagarin in 1961, ...	Kohoutek comet On 7 march 1973, the Czech astronomer Lubos Kohoutek ...
Large Canary Island Telescope The Large Canary Island Telescope is on the isle of La Palma ...	Late Heavy Bombardment The Late Heavy Bombardment: or LHB, is a period in the ...
M 105 Leo 1 is a group of galaxies in the constellation of Leo ...	M 37 The M37 star cluster (NGC 2099) is 4000 light-years away in ...