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Mir The Soviet space station Mir a word meaning ...	Mira Ceti Mira Ceti, the omicron star in the constellation of the ...
Miras To achieve the objectives of SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean ...	Mount Palomar observatory The Mount Palomar observatory is in California at an ...
NGC The New General Catalogue (NGC) is a list of 7840 celestial ...	Ocean planet Until recently, the idea that a planet entirely covered by ...
Opposition Opposition is a phenomenon in which the celestial geocentric ...	Orion nebula The Orion nebula Messier 42 is the brightest diffuse nebula ...
Pallas On 28 March 1802, the German astronomer Heinrich Olbers ...	Perseids The Perseids form a flow of shooting stars that appear to ...
Phases of a planet In astronomy, the phases of a planet or natural satellite ...	Plutoid Since June 2008, following a decision by the International ...
Proton-proton chain The proton-proton chain is one of the series of main ...	Proxima Centauri Proxima Centauri is the nearest star to us. It is a red ...
Quasar Quasi-stellar radio source. A galaxy with an extremely ...	Regulus Regulus is one of the stars forming the constellation of ...
Ring Nebula M57 – the Ring Nebula - is in the surprising family of ...	Second of arc (symbol: ") A unit of measurement for very small ...
Seyfert galaxy Seyfert galaxies are ordinary-looking galaxies, usually ...	Skylab Skylab was the first American space station. It stayed in ...