Alphabet Game - STARS

[Michele]

W = Wormhole (Do theoretic celestial bodies count?

[Bonnie Ballentine]

X = X-ray

[Mary Schlafly]

Y= Yellow Dwarf  (It f is a star and is often referred to as a G-type main sequence star. A perfect example of a yellow dwarf would be the sun. A yellow dwarf has a mass almost like the mass of the sun. Its color ranges from white to a lighter yellow).

[Bonnie Ballentine]

Z = zenith

[Bonnie Ballentine]

Anyone want to go again...who has an A?

[Cassel]

A - Andromeda

[Bonnie Ballentine]

B = Black Hole

[libera]

C = Cassiopeia

[Bonnie Ballentine]

D = Dwarf star

[Sharon Wilke]

E = Equinox

[Annie Tobin]

F = falling star

[Bonnie Ballentine]

G = gravitational pull

[Annie Tobin]

H = Horsehead Nebula

[Bonnie Ballentine]

I = INTERSTELLAR DUST

[libera]

J = Jansky ( a unit used in radio astronomy, it was Karl Jansky who developed radio astronomy)

[libera]

K = Kelvin (temperature scale which is also used in astronomy)

[libera]

L = Lunation ( the cycle between one new moon and the next one)

[libera]

M = Meteor

[libera]

N = Nova

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O = Orbit

[Bonnie Ballentine]

P = Pluto

[Cassel]

Q - Quasar (an extremely luminous active galactic nucleus ); although I needed to Google the definition, I knew of the name from my older years doing some astronomy!

[libera]

R = Ring galaxy (the ring is said to "contain luminous blue stars")

[libera]

S = Supernova

[libera]

Ups, sorry, I just saw it, I did the same proposition for R twice, here another one.

 

R = Red giant