Page 5 - Universe dictionary by Futura-Sciences

Alphabetical index

Cape Canaveral Cape Canaveral is on the west coast of Florida, 28° 30' ...	Celestial body The celestial bodies include the stars, the planets and ...
Celestial equator The celestial equator is a great circle on the celestial ...	Celestial meridian The celestial meridian is the semi-major circle of the ...
Ceres Ceres is a dwarf planet about 950 kilometres in diameter, it ...	CEV Orion (ex CEV: "Crew Exploration Vehicle"), was ...
Challenger Initially intended for experimental tests, Challenger was ...	Chandra Chandra (or Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility: AXAF) is a ...
Chandrasekhar limit This limit, equal to 1.4 times the mass of the Sun, is the ...	Chandrayaan-1 Chandrayaan-1 is an Indian automatic lunar probe (ISRO, ...
Charon Natural satellite of Pluto. Discovered in 1978 by Harrington ...	Chondrite Chondrites are rocky meteorites (see meteorites). The ...
Chondrule Chondrules are small spherules from 0.1 to 10 mm in diameter ...	Chromosphere The chromosphere is a region in the atmosphere of a star ...
CloudSat Until the arrival of CloudSat, satellites studying the ...	CMB Acronym of Cosmic Microwave Background.
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 ...