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Reality Theory: Cosmology&Astrophysics
[edit]- 88 modern constellations
- A-series and B-series
- Aberration of light
- Absolute magnitude
- Absolute rotation
- Absolute space and time
- Accelerating expansion of the universe
- Accretion (astrophysics)
- Accretion disk
- Active galactic nucleus
- Adaptive optics
- ADM formalism
- Aerobraking
- Aerocapture
- Aestivation hypothesis
- Age of the universe
- Air launch to orbit
- Air mass (astronomy)
- Albedo
- Alcubierre drive
- Alderson disk
- Alternatives to general relativity
- Analemma
- Andromeda Galaxy
- Angular diameter distance
- Anthropic principle
- Anti-ballistic missile
- Anti-de Sitter space
- Anti-satellite weapon
- Antimatter rocket
- Aperture synthesis
- Apollo 11
- Apollo program
- Apparent magnitude
- Apparent retrograde motion
- Apsidal precession
- Apsis
- Argument of periapsis
- Ariane (rocket family)
- Arrow of time
- Artemis program
- Artificial gravity
- Asterism (astronomy)
- Asteroid
- Asteroid belt
- Asteroid impact avoidance
- Asteroid mining
- Astrograph
- Astrolabe
- Astrometry
- Astronaut
- Astronaut propulsion unit
- Astronautics
- Astronomical catalog
- Astronomical engineering
- Astronomical interferometer
- Astronomical object
- Astronomical radio source
- Astronomical seeing
- Astronomical spectroscopy
- Astronomical survey
- Astronomical system of units
- Astronomical unit
- Astronomy
- Astrophysical jet
- Astrophysical maser
- Astrophysical plasma
- Asymptotically flat spacetime
- Atlas (rocket family)
- Atmospheric entry
- Attitude control
- Autonomous spaceport drone ship
- Axial precession
- Axial tilt
- Azimuth
- B-theory of time
- Baikonur Cosmodrome
- Ballistic missile
- Barred spiral galaxy
- Barycenter
- Baryogenesis
- Baryon acoustic oscillations
- Baryon asymmetry
- Beam-powered propulsion
- BeiDou
- Big Bang
- Big Bang nucleosynthesis
- Big Bounce
- Big Crunch
- Big Rip
- Binary black hole
- Binary star
- Binoculars
- Black dwarf
- Black hole
- Black hole information paradox
- Black hole thermodynamics
- Blazar
- Blue giant
- Boeing CST-100 Starliner
- Boilerplate (spaceflight)
- Boltzmann brain
- Bond albedo
- Booster (rocketry)
- Born coordinates
- Bow shocks in astrophysics
- Brane cosmology
- Brown dwarf
- Bucket argument
- Bussard ramjet
- Cargo spacecraft
- Cauchy surface
- Causal loop
- Causal structure
- Causality (physics)
- Causality conditions
- Celestial coordinate system
- Celestial equator
- Celestial mechanics
- Celestial pole
- Celestial sphere
- Centaur (small Solar System body)
- Cepheid variable
- Ceres (dwarf planet)
- Chandrasekhar limit
- Characteristic energy
- Chromosphere
- Chronology of the universe
- Chronology protection conjecture
- Circular orbit
- Circumpolar star
- Circumstellar disc
- Circumstellar habitable zone
- Classical Cepheid variable
- Closed timelike curve
- Co-orbital configuration
- Cold dark matter
- Cold gas thruster
- Collision avoidance (spacecraft)
- Colonization of Mars
- Colonization of the Moon
- Combustion tap-off cycle
- Comet
- Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence
- Communications satellite
- Comoving and proper distances
- Compact star
- Conformal cyclic cosmology
- Congruence (general relativity)
- Conjunction (astronomy)
- Constellation
- Convection zone
- Coordinate conditions
- Copernican principle
- Corona
- Coronal cloud
- Coronal hole
- Coronal loop
- Coronal mass ejection
- Cosmic Background Explorer
- Cosmic background radiation
- Cosmic censorship hypothesis
- Cosmic distance ladder
- Cosmic dust
- Cosmic microwave background
- Cosmic pluralism
- Cosmic ray
- Cosmic time
- Cosmological constant
- Cosmological constant problem
- Cosmological horizon
- Cosmological perturbation theory
- Cosmological principle
- Cryogenic fuel
- Cryogenic rocket engine
- CubeSat
- Culmination
- Curiosity (rover)
- Curved space
- Cyclic model
- Dark energy
- Dark fluid
- Dark galaxy
- Dark matter
- Dark matter halo
- Dark nebula
- De Sitter space
- De Vaucouleurs's law
- Debris disk
- Declination
- Decoupling (cosmology)
- Delta (rocket family)
- Delta-v
- Delta-v budget
- Desert planet
- Distance measures (cosmology)
- Distance modulus
- Diurnal motion
- Docking and berthing of spacecraft
- Doppler spectroscopy
- Drake equation
- Dwarf galaxy
- Dwarf planet
- Dynamical friction
- Dynamo theory
- Dyson sphere
- Earth
- Earth mass
- Earth observation
- Earth observation satellite
- Earth phase
- Eccentric anomaly
- Eclipse
- Ecliptic
- Ecliptic coordinate system
- Eddington luminosity
- Effective radius
- Effective temperature
- Einstein field equations
- Einstein manifold
- Einstein ring
- Einstein tensor
- Einstein's constant
- Einstein–Hilbert action
- Electrically powered spacecraft propulsion
- Electrodynamic tether
- Electromagnetic stress–energy tensor
- Elliptic orbit
- Elliptical galaxy
- Emission nebula
- Enceladus
- Energy condition
- Entropic gravity
- Ephemeris
- Epoch (astronomy)
- Equation of state (cosmology)
- Equatorial coordinate system
- Equivalence principle
- ER=EPR
- Ergosphere
- Escape velocity
- Eternal inflation
- Eternalism (philosophy of time)
- Europa (moon)
- Event (relativity)
- Event horizon
- Exact solutions in general relativity
- Exoplanet
- Exotic star
- Expander cycle
- Expansion of the universe
- Expendable launch system
- Exploration of Mars
- Exploration of the Moon
- Extinction (astronomy)
- Extra dimensions
- Extragalactic astronomy
- Extraterrestrial intelligence
- Extravehicular activity
- Extreme trans-Neptunian object
- Extremely large telescope
- Extremely Large Telescope
- Faber–Jackson relation
- Falcon (rocket family)
- Fast radio burst
- Faster-than-light
- Fermi paradox
- Fine-tuned Universe
- Firewall (physics)
- Fixed stars
- Flatness problem
- Flight dynamics (spacecraft)
- Floating landing platform
- Flyby (spaceflight)
- Formation and evolution of the Solar System
- Four-dimensionalism
- Frame fields in general relativity
- Frame-dragging
- Free-return trajectory
- Friedmann equations
- Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric
- Fundamental ephemeris
- Fundamental plane (elliptical galaxies)
- Fusion rocket
- Future of an expanding universe
- G-type main-sequence star
- Galactic astronomy
- Galactic bulge
- Galactic Center
- Galactic coordinate system
- Galactic corona
- Galactic disc
- Galactic habitable zone
- Galactic halo
- Galactic quadrant
- Galactic tide
- Galaxy
- Galaxy cluster
- Galaxy color–magnitude diagram
- Galaxy filament
- Galaxy formation and evolution
- Galaxy group
- Galaxy groups and clusters
- Galaxy merger
- Galaxy morphological classification
- Galaxy rotation curve
- Galileo (satellite navigation)
- Gamma-ray astronomy
- Gamma-ray burst
- Ganymede (moon)
- Gas giant
- Gas-generator cycle
- Gauss's law for gravity
- General relativity
- Generation ship
- Geocentric orbit
- Geodesic deviation
- Geodesics in general relativity
- Geodetic effect
- Geometric albedo
- Geometrodynamics
- Geostationary orbit
- Geosynchronous orbit
- Giant planet
- Giant star
- Global Positioning System
- Globally hyperbolic manifold
- Globular cluster
- GLONASS
- Grandfather paradox
- Gravitational acceleration
- Gravitational binding energy
- Gravitational collapse
- Gravitational compression
- Gravitational constant
- Gravitational energy
- Gravitational field
- Gravitational instability
- Gravitational lens
- Gravitational microlensing
- Gravitational potential
- Gravitational redshift
- Gravitational singularity
- Gravitational time dilation
- Gravitational two-body problem
- Gravitational wave
- Gravitoelectromagnetism
- Gravity
- Gravity assist
- Gravity drag
- Gravity well
- Great Attractor
- Great Filter
- Ground segment
- Ground station
- Ground track
- Growing block universe
- Gödel metric
- H II region
- Habitability of binary star systems
- Habitability of red dwarf systems
- Hall-effect thruster
- Hamilton–Jacobi–Einstein equation
- Hartle–Hawking state
- Hawking radiation
- Health threat from cosmic rays
- Heat death of the universe
- Heavy-lift launch vehicle
- Heliosphere
- Heliospheric current sheet
- Hertzsprung–Russell diagram
- Hill sphere
- Hohmann transfer orbit
- Hole argument
- Horizon problem
- Horizontal coordinate system
- Horseshoe orbit
- Hot dark matter
- Hot Jupiter
- Hot Neptune
- Hour angle
- Hubble sequence
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Hubble volume
- Hubble's law
- Human presence in space
- Human spaceflight
- Hybrid-propellant rocket
- Hydrostatic equilibrium
- Hyperbolic trajectory
- Hypergiant
- Hypergolic propellant
- Hypernova
- HZE ions
- Ice giant
- Ice planet
- Impact event
- In situ resource utilization
- Inflation (cosmology)
- Inflationary epoch
- Infrared astronomy
- Ingenuity (helicopter)
- Initial value formulation (general relativity)
- Interacting galaxy
- Intercontinental ballistic missile
- Intergalactic dust
- Intergalactic star
- Intergalactic travel
- Intermediate-mass black hole
- Internal heating
- International Space Station
- Interplanetary contamination
- Interplanetary dust cloud
- Interplanetary magnetic field
- Interplanetary medium
- Interplanetary scintillation
- Interplanetary spaceflight
- Interstellar ark
- Interstellar cloud
- Interstellar communication
- Interstellar medium
- Interstellar object
- Interstellar probe
- Interstellar travel
- Intracluster medium
- Introduction to the mathematics of general relativity
- Invariable plane
- Ion thruster
- Iridium satellite constellation
- Irregular galaxy
- James Webb Space Telescope
- Jupiter
- Jupiter mass
- K-type main-sequence star
- Kaluza–Klein theory
- Kappa–mechanism
- Kardashev scale
- Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism
- Kennedy Space Center
- Kepler orbit
- Kepler's laws of planetary motion
- Kerr metric
- Kerr–Newman metric
- Kinetic bombardment
- Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates
- Kuiper belt
- Lagrangian point
- Lambda-CDM model
- Lanczos tensor
- Lander (spacecraft)
- Laniakea Supercluster
- Laplace plane
- Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector
- Large extra dimension
- Large Magellanic Cloud
- Laser communication in space
- Laser propulsion
- Launch escape system
- Launch pad
- Launch vehicle
- Launch window
- Lense–Thirring precession
- Lenticular galaxy
- Libration
- Life support system
- Light cone
- Light curve
- Light echo
- Light-year
- LIGO
- Linearized gravity
- Liquid rocket booster
- Liquid rocket propellant
- Liquid-propellant rocket
- List of missions to Mars
- List of missions to the Moon
- List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents
- Local Bubble
- Local Group
- Local Interstellar Cloud
- Local Sheet
- Location of Earth
- Long March (rocket family)
- Longitude of the ascending node
- Low Earth orbit
- Luminosity
- Luminosity distance
- Luna programme
- Lunar eclipse
- Lunar phase
- Lunar resources
- Lunar rover
- Mach's principle
- Magnetar
- Magnetic sail
- Magnetosphere
- Magnitude (astronomy)
- Main sequence
- Mars
- Mars landing
- Mars rover
- Mass distribution
- Mass driver
- Mass in general relativity
- Mass ratio
- Mass segregation (astronomy)
- Mass-to-light ratio
- Mathematics of general relativity
- Matrioshka brain
- Max q
- Maxwell's equations in curved spacetime
- Mean anomaly
- Measure problem (cosmology)
- Medium Earth orbit
- Medium-lift launch vehicle
- Mega-Earth
- Mercury (planet)
- Meridian (astronomy)
- Messier object
- Metallicity
- Meteor shower
- Meteoroid
- Methods of detecting exoplanets
- Metric expansion of space
- Metric tensor (general relativity)
- Micro black hole
- Micro-g environment
- Micrometeoroid
- Milky Way
- Mini-Neptune
- Minor planet
- Mir
- Missile defense
- Mission control center
- Mobile launcher platform
- Molecular cloud
- Momentum exchange tether
- Monopropellant
- Monopropellant rocket
- Moon
- Moon landing
- Multiple time dimensions
- Multistage rocket
- Multiverse
- N-body problem
- Nadir
- Naked singularity
- NASA facilities
- Natural satellite
- Near-Earth object
- Nebula
- Nebular hypothesis
- Negative energy
- Negative mass
- Neptune
- Neptune trojan
- Neutron star
- Neutron star merger
- Newton's law of universal gravitation
- No-hair theorem
- Nodal precession
- Non-exact solutions in general relativity
- Non-rocket spacelaunch
- Nova
- Novikov self-consistency principle
- Nuclear astrophysics
- Nuclear power in space
- Nuclear pulse propulsion
- Nuclear thermal rocket
- Nucleosynthesis
- O'Neill cylinder
- Oberth effect
- Observable universe
- Observational astronomy
- Occultation
- Ocean planet
- Odd radio circle
- Olbers' paradox
- Oort cloud
- Open cluster
- Opposition (astronomy)
- Optical telescope
- Orbit
- Orbit determination
- Orbit insertion
- Orbit modeling
- Orbit phasing
- Orbital decay
- Orbital eccentricity
- Orbital elements
- Orbital inclination
- Orbital maneuver
- Orbital mechanics
- Orbital node
- Orbital period
- Orbital plane (astronomy)
- Orbital resonance
- Orbital spaceflight
- Orbital speed
- Orbital state vectors
- Orbital station-keeping
- Orion (spacecraft)
- Orion Arm
- Osculating orbit
- Outer space
- Pair-instability supernova
- Parabolic trajectory
- Parsec
- Particle horizon
- Pass (spaceflight)
- Patched conic approximation
- Payload
- Payload fraction
- Peculiar velocity
- Penrose diagram
- Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems
- Perihelion and aphelion
- Period-luminosity relation
- Perseverance (rover)
- Perturbation (astronomy)
- Phantom energy
- Philosophical presentism
- Philosophy of space and time
- Photometry (astronomy)
- Photon epoch
- Photon sphere
- Photosphere
- Physical cosmology
- Plane of reference
- Planet
- Planetarium
- Planetarium hypothesis
- Planetary equilibrium temperature
- Planetary flyby
- Planetary habitability
- Planetary mass
- Planetary migration
- Planetary nebula
- Planetary protection
- Planetary science
- Planetary system
- Planetesimal
- Planisphere
- Plasma propulsion engine
- Pluto
- Pogo oscillation
- Pole star
- Poles of astronomical bodies
- Position of the Sun
- Positive energy theorem
- Pre-main-sequence star
- Pressure suit
- Primary (astronomy)
- Primary life support system
- Primordial black hole
- Primordial fluctuations
- Project Mercury
- Propellant depot
- Propellant mass fraction
- Proper motion
- Protogalaxy
- Proton (rocket family)
- Protoplanet
- Protoplanetary disk
- Protostar
- Proxima Centauri
- Pulsar
- Quadrant (instrument)
- Quasar
- Quasi-satellite
- Quintessence (physics)
- Radial velocity
- Radiation pressure
- Radiation zone
- Radio astronomy
- Radio galaxy
- Radio telescope
- Rare Earth hypothesis
- Raychaudhuri equation
- Reaction control system
- Reaction engine
- Recombination (cosmology)
- Reconnaissance satellite
- Red dwarf
- Red giant
- Redshift
- Redshift-space distortions
- Reduced mass
- Reflecting telescope
- Reflection nebula
- Refracting telescope
- Regenerative cooling (rocket)
- Regge calculus
- Reionization
- Reissner–Nordström metric
- Relative angular momentum
- Relativistic angular momentum
- Relativistic beaming
- Relativistic mechanics
- Relativistic rocket
- Retrograde and prograde motion
- Retrorocket
- Reusable launch system
- Ricci curvature
- Riemann curvature tensor
- Right ascension
- Rindler coordinates
- Ring singularity
- Ring system
- Robotic spacecraft
- Roche limit
- Rocket
- Rocket engine
- Rocket engine nozzle
- Rocket engine test facility
- Rocket propellant
- Rogue planet
- Rotating black hole
- Rotation period
- Rover (space exploration)
- RP-1
- Sachs–Wolfe effect
- Sagittarius A*
- Salyut 1
- Salyut programme
- Satellite
- Satellite constellation
- Satellite galaxy
- Satellite imagery
- Satellite system (astronomy)
- Saturn
- Saturn (rocket family)
- Scalar curvature
- Scale factor (cosmology)
- Scattered disc
- Schwarzschild coordinates
- Schwarzschild geodesics
- Schwarzschild metric
- Schwarzschild radius
- Search for extraterrestrial intelligence
- Self-replicating spacecraft
- Semi-major and semi-minor axes
- Sersic profile
- Service module
- Shape of the universe
- Shapiro time delay
- Shell theorem
- Shenzhou (spacecraft)
- Shenzhou program
- Single-stage-to-orbit
- Skyhook (structure)
- Skylab
- Small satellite
- Small Solar System body
- Small-lift launch vehicle
- Soft gamma repeater
- Sojourner (rover)
- Solar core
- Solar cycle
- Solar dynamo
- Solar eclipse
- Solar energetic particles
- Solar flare
- Solar mass
- Solar particle event
- Solar prominence
- Solar sail
- Solar System
- Solar wind
- Solid rocket booster
- Solid-propellant rocket
- Solutions of the Einstein field equations
- Sounding rocket
- Soviet crewed lunar programs
- Soyuz (rocket family)
- Soyuz (spacecraft)
- Space
- Space architecture
- Space capsule
- Space colonization
- Space debris
- Space elevator
- Space environment
- Space exploration
- Space habitat
- Space launch
- Space Launch System
- Space manufacturing
- Space probe
- Space rendezvous
- Space research
- Space segment
- Space Shuttle
- Space Shuttle program
- Space station
- Space suit
- Space sunshade
- Space telescope
- Space tether
- Space vehicle
- Space weapon
- Space weather
- Space-based solar power
- Spacecraft
- Spacecraft design
- Spacecraft propulsion
- Spacecraft thermal control
- Spaceflight
- Spaceplane
- Spaceport
- Spacetime
- Spacetime symmetries
- Spacetime topology
- SpaceX Dragon
- SpaceX reusable launch system development program
- SpaceX South Texas launch site
- SpaceX Starlink
- SpaceX Starship
- Specific impulse
- Specific orbital energy
- Specific relative angular momentum
- Sphere of influence (astrodynamics)
- Spherical astronomy
- Spherically symmetric spacetime
- Spiral galaxy
- Splashdown
- Sputnik 1
- Square Kilometre Array
- Stability of the Solar System
- Staged combustion cycle
- Standard gravitational parameter
- Standard ruler
- Star
- Star catalogue
- Star chart
- Star cluster
- Star formation
- Star lifting
- Star system
- Star tracker
- Star trail
- Starburst galaxy
- Starship
- Starspot
- Stellar black hole
- Stellar classification
- Stellar collision
- Stellar dynamics
- Stellar engine
- Stellar evolution
- Stellar halo
- Stellar kinematics
- Stellar magnetic field
- Stellar nucleosynthesis
- Stellar parallax
- Stellar population
- Stellar pulsation
- Stellar wind
- Stress–energy tensor
- Strong gravitational lensing
- Structure formation
- Sub-orbital spaceflight
- Subgiant
- Submillimetre astronomy
- Sudarsky's gas giant classification
- Sun
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Sunspot
- Super heavy-lift launch vehicle
- Super-Earth
- Superbubble
- Supercluster
- Superflare
- Supergalactic coordinate system
- Supergiant star
- Superluminal motion
- Superluminous supernova
- Supermassive black hole
- Supernova
- Supernova nucleosynthesis
- Supernova remnant
- Surface brightness
- Surface gravity
- Syzygy (astronomy)
- Tachocline
- Telescope
- Terrestrial planet
- Tests of general relativity
- Theory of relativity
- Thermal rocket
- Thick disk
- Thin disk
- Three-body problem
- Tiangong space station
- Tidal acceleration
- Tidal force
- Tidal heating
- Tidal locking
- Time
- Time in physics
- Time travel
- Timeline of the far future
- Titan (moon)
- Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit
- Trans-Neptunian object
- Transfer orbit
- Transit (astronomy)
- Trojan (celestial body)
- True anomaly
- Tsiolkovsky rocket equation
- Tully–Fisher relation
- Twin paradox
- Twinkling
- Two-body problem
- Type Ia supernova
- Type Ib and Ic supernovae
- Type II Cepheid
- Type II supernova
- Ultimate fate of the universe
- Ultraviolet astronomy
- Universal extra dimension
- Universe
- Unmanned spacecraft
- Uranus
- Vacuum solution (general relativity)
- Van Allen radiation belt
- Variable star
- Velocity dispersion
- Venus
- Very Large Array
- Very Large Telescope
- Very-long-baseline interferometry
- Viking program
- Virgo Supercluster
- Vis-viva equation
- Visible-light astronomy
- Void (astronomy)
- Vostok (spacecraft)
- Vostok programme
- Voyager program
- VTVL
- Vulcan (rocket)
- Warm dark matter
- Warm–hot intergalactic medium
- Warp drive
- Weak gravitational lensing
- Weather satellite
- Weyl tensor
- White dwarf
- White hole
- Working mass
- World line
- Wormhole
- X-ray astronomy
- X-ray binary
- X-ray pulsar
- Yarkovsky effect
- Young stellar object
- Zenith
- Zero-energy universe
- Zero-propellant maneuver
- Zodiac
- Zoo hypothesis