Page 6 - Universe dictionary by Futura-Sciences

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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 ...
Cupid Cupid (S/2003 U2) is a satellite of Uranus discovered in ...	Dark ages The Dark ages of the universe are a time that began when the ...
Dark energy Dark energy is the name given to a hypothetical substance in ...	Dark matter The visible stars and nebulae only represent a small ...