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astronomical object An astronomical object, celestial object, stellar object or heavenly body is a naturally occurring physical entity, association, or structure that exists in the observable universe. In astronomy, the terms ''object'' and ''body'' are often us ...

Solar System

List of Solar System objects The following is a list of Solar System objects by orbit, ordered by increasing distance from the Sun. Most named objects in this list have a diameter of 500 km or more. *The Sun, a spectral class G2V main-sequence star *The inner Solar Sy ...

List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System This is a list of most likely gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System, which are objects that have a rounded, ellipsoidal shape due to their own gravity (but are not necessarily in hydrostatic equilibrium). Apart from the Sun itself, ...

List of Solar System objects most distant from the Sun These Solar System minor planets are the furthest from the Sun . The objects have been categorized by their approximate current distance from the Sun, and not by the calculated aphelion of their orbit. The list changes over time because the ob ...

List of Solar System objects by size This article includes a list of the most massive known objects of the Solar System and partial lists of smaller objects by observed mean radius. These lists can be sorted according to an object's radius and mass and, for the most massive objects, ...

Lists of geological features of the Solar System This is a directory of lists of geological features on planets excepting Earth, moons and asteroids ordered by increasing distance from the Sun. Mercury * List of craters on Mercury * List of geological features on Mercury Venus * List ...

* List of natural satellites (moons) *

Lists of small Solar System bodies This is a list of the lists of small Solar System bodies and dwarf planets. * Lists of comets * List of minor planets * List of named minor planets (alphabetical) * List of named minor planets (numerical) * List of exceptional asteroids * List of ...

Lists of comets Non-periodic comets are seen only once. They are usually on near-parabolic orbits that will not return to the vicinity of the Sun for thousands of years, if ever. Periodic comets usually have elongated elliptical orbits, and usually return to th ...

List of meteor showers Named meteor showers recur at approximately the same dates each year. They appear to radiate from a certain point in the sky, known as the radiant, and vary in the speed, frequency and brightness of the meteors. As of November 2019, there are 112 ...

; Minor planets *

List of minor planets The following is a list of numbered minor planets in ascending numerical order. With the exception of comets, minor planets are all small bodies in the Solar System, including asteroids, distant objects and dwarf planets. The catalog consists ...

List of exceptional asteroids The following is a collection of lists of asteroids of the Solar System that are exceptional in some way, such as their size or orbit. For the purposes of this article, "asteroid" refers to minor planets out to the orbit of Neptune, and includes ...

List of minor planet moons A minor-planet moon is an astronomical object that orbits a minor planet as its natural satellite. , there are 457 minor planets known or suspected to have moons. Discoveries of minor-planet moons (and binary objects, in general) are importan ...

** List of damocloids **

List of centaurs (small Solar System bodies) The following is a list of centaurs, a group of non-resonant small Solar System bodies whose orbit around the Sun lie typically between the orbits of Jupiter and Neptune (5 to 30 AU). Centaurs are minor planets with characteristics of comets, an ...

List of trans-Neptunian objects This is a list of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), which are minor planets in the Solar System that orbit the Sun at a greater distance on average than Neptune, that is, their orbit has a semi-major axis greater than 30.1 astronomical units (AU) ...

** List of unnumbered minor planets ** List of dwarf planets **

List of possible dwarf planets The number of dwarf planets in the Solar System is unknown. Estimates have run as high as 200 in the Kuiper belt and over 10,000 in the region beyond. However, consideration of the surprisingly low densities of many large trans-Neptunian object ...

Exoplanets and brown dwarfs

Lists of planets The following are lists of planets. __NOTOC__ In the Solar System *For a list of geophysical planets in the Solar System, see: List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System This also includes a list of the eight planets according t ...

Lists of exoplanets These are lists of exoplanets. Most of these were discovered by the Kepler space telescope. There are an additional 2,054 potential exoplanets from Kepler's first mission yet to be confirmed, as well as 978 from its " Second Light" mission and ...

List of largest exoplanets Below is a list of the largest exoplanets so far discovered, in terms of physical size, ordered by radius. Caveats This list of extrasolar objects may and will change over time because of inconsistency between journals, different methods used ...

List of brown dwarfs This is a list of brown dwarfs. These are objects that have masses between heavy gas giants and low-mass stars. The first isolated brown dwarf discovered was Teide 1 in 1995. The first brown dwarf discovered orbiting a star was Gliese 229 B, al ...

Stars

Lists of stars The following are lists of stars. These are astronomical objects that spend some portion of their existence generating energy through thermonuclear fusion. By location * Lists of stars by constellation By name * List of traditional star names ...

List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs This list covers all known stars, brown dwarfs, and sub-brown dwarfs within of the Sun. So far, 131 such objects have been found, of which only 22 are bright enough to be visible without a telescope. The visible light needs to reach or exce ...

List of brightest stars This is a list of stars arranged by their apparent magnitude – their brightness as observed from Earth. It includes all stars brighter than magnitude +2.50 in visible light, measured using a ''V''-band filter in the UBV photometric system. Sta ...

List of hottest stars This is a list of hottest stars so far discovered (excluding degenerate stars), arranged by decreasing temperature. The stars with temperatures higher than 60,000 K are included. List See also *List of most massive stars *List of most lumino ...

List of nearest bright stars This list of nearest bright stars is a table of stars found within 15 parsecs (48.9 light-years) of the nearest star, the Sun, that have an absolute magnitude of +8.5 or brighter, which is approximately comparable to a listing of stars more lumi ...

List of most luminous stars This is a list of stars arranged by their absolute magnitude – their intrinsic stellar luminosity. This cannot be observed directly, so instead must be calculated from the apparent magnitude (the brightness as seen from Earth), the distance t ...

List of most massive stars This is a list of the most massive stars that have been discovered, in solar masses (). Uncertainties and caveats Most of the masses listed below are contested and, being the subject of current research, remain under review and subject to const ...

List of largest known stars Below are lists of the largest stars currently known, ordered by radius and separated into categories by galaxy. The unit of measurement used is the radius of the Sun (approximately ). The angular diameters of stars can be measured directly us ...

List of smallest stars This is a list of stars which are the least voluminous known (the smallest stars by volume). List Notable small stars This is a list of small stars that are notable for characteristics that are not separately listed. Smallest stars by type ...

List of oldest stars The age of the oldest known stars approaches the age of the universe, about 13.8 billion years. Some of these are among the first stars from reionization (the stellar dawn), ending the Dark Ages about 370,000 years after Big Bang. Thes ...

List of stars with proplyds This is a list of stars with proplyds (ionized protoplanetary discs) and includes whether they have gaps or planets. Lists of proplyds List of proplyds with gaps ''(list is very incomplete)'' ''When planets are confirmed (if no planet before), ...

List of variable stars , there are over 52,011 known variable stars, with more being discovered regularly, so a complete list of every single variable is impossible at this place (cf. GCVS). The following is a list of variable stars that are well-known, bright, signifi ...

List of semiregular variable stars This is a list of semiregular variable stars. Variability ranges are taken from the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) where these are visual magnitudes, otherwise from the International Variable Star Index (VSX). Spectral types are taken ...

List of stars that dim oddly This list of stars that have unusual dimming periods is a table of stars that have been observed to darken and brighten and don't appear to be eclipsing binaries or intrinsic variables. It's based on studies searching for analogs of Tabby's ...

** List of X-ray pulsars **

List of supernovae This is a list of supernovae that are of historical significance. These include supernovae that were observed prior to the availability of photography, and individual events that have been the subject of a scientific paper that contributed to supe ...

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List of supernova remnants This is a list of observed supernova remnants (SNRs) in the Milky Way, as well as galaxies nearby enough to resolve individual nebulae, such as the Large Magellanic Cloud, Large and Small Magellanic Clouds and the Andromeda Galaxy. Supernova remna ...

*** List of gamma-ray bursts **

List of white dwarfs This is a list of exceptional white dwarf stars. Firsts These were the first white dwarfs discovered fitting these conditions Extremes These are the white dwarfs which are currently known to fit these conditions Nearest Notes *SDSS J1228+104 ...

Star constellations

Lists of constellations The following lists of constellations are available: * IAU designated constellations - a list of the current, or "modern", constellations. * Former constellations - a list of former constellations. * Chinese constellations - traditional Chinese a ...

Lists of stars by constellation All stars but one can be associated with an IAU constellation. IAU constellations are areas of the sky. Although there are only 88 IAU constellations, the sky is actually divided into 89 irregularly shaped boxes as the constellation Serpens is spl ...

List of constellations by area The International Astronomical Union (IAU) designates 88 constellations of stars. In the table below, they are ranked by the solid angle that they subtend in the sky, measured in square degrees and millisteradians. These solid angles depend ...

** List of IAU designated constellations

Star clusters

List of open clusters This is a list of open clusters located in the Milky Way. An open cluster is a gravitationally bound association of up to a few thousand stars that all formed from the same giant molecular cloud. There are over 1,000 known open clusters in the M ...

List of stellar streams This is a list of stellar streams. A stellar stream is an association of stars orbiting a galaxy that was once a globular cluster or dwarf galaxy that has now been torn apart and stretched out along its orbit by tidal forces. An exception in the ...

List of nearby stellar associations and moving groups This is a list of nearby stellar associations and moving groups. A stellar association is a very loose star cluster, looser than an open cluster. A moving group is the remnant of such a stellar association. Members of stellar associations an ...

Nebulae

Lists of nebulae A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...

List of dark nebulae This is a list of dark nebulae (absorption nebulae), also called "dark clouds". List *E Nebula ( Barnard 142 and 143) *Barnard 68, possibly the closest to Earth at about 400 light-years. *Bernes 157 (Sandqvist and Lindroos, SL 39-41), another cl ...

List of diffuse nebulae This is a list of diffuse nebulae. Most nebulae are diffuse, meaning they do not have well-defined boundaries. Types of diffuse nebulae include emission nebulae and reflection nebula Reflection or reflexion may refer to: Science and technology ...

List of planetary nebulae The following is an incomplete list of known planetary nebulae. See also * Lists of astronomical objects * Lists of planets * Lists of exoplanets These are lists of exoplanets. Most of these were discovered by the Kepler space telescop ...

** List of protoplanetary nebulae **

List of largest nebulae Below is a list of the largest nebulae so far discovered, ordered by actual size (not angular diameter). This list is prone to change because of inconsistencies between studies, the great distances of nebulae from our stellar neighbourhood, and t ...

Galaxies

Lists of galaxies This is a list of lists of galaxies. Lists of galaxies * List of galaxies, general list of galaxies ; Galaxies by type * List of spiral galaxies * List of ring galaxies * List of polar-ring galaxies * List of quasars ; Galaxies by association ...

List of galaxies The following is a list of notable galaxies. There are about 51 galaxies in the Local Group (see list of nearest galaxies for a complete list), on the order of 100,000 in the Local Supercluster, and an estimated 100 billion in all of the ob ...

List of largest galaxies This is a list of largest galaxies known, sorted by order of increasing major axis diameters. The unit of measurement used is the light-year (approximately 9.46 kilometers). Overview Galaxies are vast collections of stars, planets, nebulae ...

List of galaxies with richest globular cluster systems This is a list of galaxies with richest known globular cluster systems. As of 2019, the galaxy NGC 6166 has the richest globular cluster system, with 39 000 globular clusters. Other galaxies with rich globular cluster systems are NGC 4874, NGC 48 ...

List of nearest galaxies This is a list of known galaxies within 3.8 megaparsecs (12.4 million light-years) of the Solar System, in ascending order of heliocentric distance, or the distance to the Sun. This encompasses about 50 major Local Group galaxies, and some that ...

List of galaxies named after people This is a list of astronomical objects named after people. While topological features on Solar System bodies — such as craters, mountains, and valleys — are often named after famous or historical individuals, many stars and deep-sky objects a ...

List of spiral galaxies A spiral galaxy is a type of galaxy characterized by a central bulge of old Population II stars surrounded by a rotating disc of younger Population I stars. A spiral galaxy maintains its spirals arms due to density wave theory. __TOC__ Spiral g ...

** List of polar-ring galaxies ** List of ring galaxies **

List of quasars This article contains lists of quasars. More than a million quasars have been observed, so any list on Wikipedia is necessarily a selection of them. Proper naming of quasars are by Catalogue Entry, Qxxxx±yy using B1950 coordinates, or QSO Jxxxx� ...

; Satellite galaxies * List of satellite galaxies of the Milky Way * List of Andromeda's satellite galaxies * List of Triangulum's suspected satellite galaxies

Galaxy groups and clusters

List of galaxy groups and clusters This article lists some galaxy groups and galaxy clusters. Defining the limits of galaxy clusters is imprecise as many clusters are still forming. In particular, clusters close to the Milky Way tend to be classified as galaxy clusters even whe ...

List of Abell clusters The Abell catalogue is a catalogue of approximately 4,000 galaxy clusters with at least 30 members, almost complete to a redshift of ''z'' = 0.2. It was originally compiled by the American astronomer George O. Abell in 1958 using plates from PO ...

List of galaxy superclusters A supercluster is a large group of smaller galaxy clusters or galaxy groups; they are among the largest known structures in the universe. The Milky Way is part of the Local Group galaxy group (which contains more than 54 galaxies), which in turn ...

* List of galaxy filaments * List of large quasar groups

Black holes

* Lists of black holes **

List of black holes This list of black holes (and stars considered probable candidates) is organized by mass (including black holes of undetermined mass); some items in this list are galaxies or star clusters that are believed to be organized around a black ho ...

List of most massive black holes This is an ordered list of the most massive black holes so far discovered (and probable candidates), measured in units of solar masses (), approximately . Introduction A supermassive black hole (SMBH) is an extremely large black hole, on the ...

** List of nearest known black holes

Other lists

List of voids This is a list of voids in astronomy. Voids are particularly galaxy-poor regions of space between filaments, making up the large-scale structure of the universe. Some voids are known as ''supervoids''. In the tables, ''z'' is the cosmological ...

** List of largest voids *

List of largest cosmic structures This is a list of the largest cosmic structures so far discovered. The unit of measurement used is the light-year (distance traveled by light in one Julian year; approximately 9.46 trillion kilometres). This list includes superclusters, galaxy ...

List of the most distant astronomical objects This article documents the most distant astronomical objects discovered and verified so far, and the time periods in which they were so classified. For comparisons with the light travel distance of the astronomical objects listed below, the age of ...

* List of most massive neutron stars *

List of multiplanetary systems From the total of stars known to have exoplanets (as of ), there are a total of known multiplanetary systems, or stars with at least two confirmed planets, beyond the Solar System. This list includes systems with at least three confirmed planet ...

Astronomical catalogues

List of astronomical catalogues An astronomical catalogue is a list or tabulation of astronomical objects, typically grouped together because they share a common type, morphology, origin, means of detection, or method of discovery. Astronomical catalogs are usually the result of ...

List of Messier objects The Messier objects are a set of 110 astronomical objects catalogued by the French astronomer Charles Messier in his ''Catalogue des Nébuleuses et des Amas d'Étoiles'' (''Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters''). Because Messier was only int ...

List of NGC objects The following is a list of NGC objects, that is objects listed in the New General Catalogue (NGC). It is one of the largest comprehensive astronomical catalogues for deep sky objects such as star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies. * List of NGC ...

*** List of NGC objects (1-1000) *** List of NGC objects (1001-2000) *** List of NGC objects (2001-3000) *** List of NGC objects (3001-4000) *** List of NGC objects (4001-5000) *** List of NGC objects (5001-6000) *** List of NGC objects (6001-7000) *** List of NGC objects (7001-7840)

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