Page 2 - Letter C - Universe dictionary by Futura-Sciences

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CME Coronal mass ejections are caused by powerful magnetic ...	CNES The French space agency, the CNES, was founded in 1961 by ...
Columbia Columbia was an American space shuttle built after ...	Columbus Columbus is one of the main modules of the International ...
Comet A comet is an approximately spherical body that may be up to ...	Comet tail A comet tail is a long tail of gas (blue tail) and dust ...
Concorde Supersonic aircraft with a cruising speed of Mach 2.04 at an ...	Conjunction Conjunction is a phenomenon in which two or more celestial ...
Constellation A random pattern of stars in the night sky produced by ...	Constellation of Scorpio The constellation of Scropio, from the Latin scoprius, is ...
Coronagraph A coronagraph is an astronomical telescope specially ...	Corot The CoRoT space observatory (COnvection, ROtation & ...
Cosmic microwave background radiation Also called relic radiation or CMB, it is diffuse ...	Cosmic ray A very fast charged particle from interstellar space. The ...
Cosmological constant A cosmological constant is a mathematical term in Einstein's ...	Cosmos 1 Cosmos 1 is a solar sail. The sail weighs 110 kilograms and ...
Critical density Critical density is the density of a flat universe ...	CryoSat The CryoSat mission was developed as part of the ESA's Earth ...
Cryovolcanism Cryovolcanism is a volcanic phenomenon occurring in areas ...	CSA The Canada Space Agency, of which the headquarters are ...