Lists of astronomical objects facts for kids
Selection of astronomical bodies and objects:
- Moon Mimas and Ida, an asteroid with its own moon, Dactyl
- Comet Lovejoy and Jupiter, a giant gas planet
- The Sun; Sirius A with Sirius B, a white dwarf; the Crab Nebula, a remnant supernova
- A black hole (artist concept); Vela Pulsar, a rotating neutron star
- M80, a globular cluster, and the Pleiades, an open star cluster
- The Whirlpool galaxy and Abell 2744, a galaxy cluster
- Superclusters, galactic filaments and voids
This is a list of lists, grouped by type of astronomical object.
Contents
Solar System
- List of Solar System objects
- List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System
- List of Solar System objects most distant from the Sun
- List of Solar System objects by size
- Lists of geological features of the Solar System
- List of natural satellites (moons)
- Lists of small Solar System bodies
- Lists of comets
- List of meteor showers
- Minor planets
- List of minor planets
- List of exceptional asteroids
- List of minor planet moons
- List of damocloids
- List of centaurs (small Solar System bodies)
- List of trans-Neptunian objects
- List of unnumbered minor planets
- List of dwarf planets
- List of possible dwarf planets
Exoplanets and brown dwarfs
- Lists of planets
- Lists of exoplanets
- List of nearest exoplanets
- List of largest exoplanets
- List of brown dwarfs
Stars
- Lists of stars
- List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs
- List of brightest stars
- List of hottest stars
- List of nearest bright stars
- List of most luminous stars
- List of most massive stars
- List of largest known stars
- List of smallest stars
- List of oldest stars
- List of stars with proplyds
- List of variable stars
- List of semiregular variable stars
- List of stars that dim oddly
- List of X-ray pulsars
- List of brown dwarfs
- List of supernovae
- List of supernova remnants
- List of gamma-ray bursts
- List of white dwarfs
Star constellations
- Lists of constellations
- Lists of stars by constellation
- List of constellations by area
- List of IAU designated constellations
Star clusters
- List of open clusters
- List of globular clusters
- List of stellar streams
- List of nearby stellar associations and moving groups
Nebulae
- Lists of nebulae
- List of dark nebulae
- List of diffuse nebulae
- List of planetary nebulae
- List of protoplanetary nebulae
- List of largest nebulae
Galaxies
- Lists of galaxies
- List of galaxies
- List of largest galaxies
- List of galaxies with richest globular cluster systems
- List of nearest galaxies
- List of galaxies named after people
- List of spiral galaxies
- List of polar-ring galaxies
- List of ring galaxies
- List of quasars
- 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
- List of Abell clusters
- List of galaxy superclusters
- List of galaxy filaments
- List of large quasar groups
Black holes
- Lists of black holes
- List of black holes
- List of most massive black holes
- List of nearest known black holes
Other lists
- List of voids
- List of largest voids
- List of largest cosmic structures
- List of the most distant astronomical objects
- List of neutron stars
- List of most massive neutron stars
- List of multiplanetary systems
Astronomical catalogues
- List of astronomical catalogues
- List of Messier objects
- List of NGC objects
- 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)
Map of astronomical objects
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See also
- Lists of astronauts
- List of government space agencies
- List of planetariums
- Lists of space scientists
- Lists of spacecraft
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