Alphabet Game - OUTER SPACE

[Michele]

Y = Yellow dwarf

[libera]

Z = Zeta Orionis (is a star at the eastern end of Orion's belt )

[Bonnie Ballentine]

A = Aperture

[Dorothy Donn]

B = Brown dwarf - A cold and dark star too small to initiate nuclear reactions that generate heat and light.

[Corrie Kinkel]

Communication Satellite

[libera]

D = Deneb (brightest and supergiant star in the Cygnus constellation)

[Bonnie Ballentine]

E = eclipse

[Freddy]

Formalhaut b - A planet 25 light years from Earth and is an extreme from our viewpoint, revolves around it's star Formalhaut and first directly imaged planet at optical wavelength.

[Dorothy Donn]

G = Gas giant – Planets made primarily of gas, these include Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

[libera]

H = Horsehead nebula (a dark nebula in the Orion constellation)

[Bonnie Ballentine]

I = ionosphere

[Dorothy Donn]

J -  Jovian planet – A planet with the same attributes of Jupiter (gas giant).

[Michele]

K = Klingons! lol

[Bonnie Ballentine]

Love your answer, Michele!

 

L = lunar eclipse

[Corrie Kinkel]

M = Moon

[Dorothy Donn]

N - Nova – An explosion on the surface of a white dwarf that is accreting matter from a companion star, which causes the system to temporarily brighten by a factor of several hundred to several thousand.

[Bonnie Ballentine]

O = observatory

[Royanne Hewko]

P= Partial Eclipse

 

 

[Michele]

Q = Quasar

[Bonnie Ballentine]

R = reflecting telescope

[Dorothy Donn]

S = Solstice – Two points on the celestial sphere wherein the sun is farthest north or south of the equator.

[libera]

T = Tektite

 

(Explanation I found:  "small, glassy material formed by the impact of a large body, usually a meteor or asteroid. Tektites are commonly found at the sites of meteor craters")

[Bonnie Ballentine]

U = universe

[Corrie Kinkel]

V = Voyager

[Michele]

W = Warp Speed (I think you've figured out by now that I'm a trekkie.)