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Small Magellanic cloud The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is, like its sister the ...	Solar eclipse of 11 August 1999 On 11 August 1999 there was a total solar eclipse visible ...
Sombrero galaxy This superb galaxy owes its name to its characteristic ...	Soyuz / ST Soyuz/ST used a perfected version of the basic Soyuz ...
Soyuz-Fregat Designed to be cost-effective for medium and high altitude ...	Soyuz-Ikar Used for the inauguration of Starsem commercial operations, ...
Spica The Spica star is the main star in the constellation of ...	Sputnik Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satellite launched from ...
Star system A star system is a star with its planets, moons, asteroids, ...	Stephan's quintet Stephan's quintet is a famous group of five galaxies In the ...
Super-Earth A super-Earth is an exoplanet of which the mass is less than ...	Symbiotic star Symbiotic stars are binary systems composed of an ordinary ...
Tempel 1 comet Discovered in 1867, the Tempel 1 comet (9P/Tempel) covers ...	The Dumbbell nebula This was the first nebula discovered by MESSIER in 1764. It ...
Triangle galaxy Like our own galaxy, or M31, the Andromeda galaxy, M33 is ...	Tunguska On 30 June 1908 at 07h 17mn 11s (local time), there was a ...
Variable star A variable star is a star of which the brightness is ...	Vega Vega is the brightest star in the constellation of Lyra, the ...
West's comet West's comet (C/1975 V1) was discovered on 10 August 1975 on ...	Whale constellation The Whale constellation, or Cetus from the Latin for whale, ...