astronomy
951 abbreviations
Abbreviation | Meaning | |
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AMS | (organization) American Meteor Society | |
AN | (publication) Astronomische Nachrichten, a German scientific journal | |
ANS | (telescope) Astronomical Netherlands Satellite | |
ANS | (organization) Astro News Service | |
ANSI | (organization) American National Standards Institute | |
AO | (instrumentation) Adaptive Optics | |
AOR | (instrumentation) Astronomical Observation Request | |
ApJ | (publication) Astrophysical Journal | |
ApJL | (publication) Astrophysical Journal Letters | |
ApJS | (publication) Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | |
APM | (instrumentation/catalog), Automatic Plate Measuring machine, a machine for making measurements from photographic plates; also, a catalog based on measurements by the machine | |
APO | (organization) Apache Point Observatory | |
APOD | (data) Astronomy Picture of the Day | |
APT | (telescope) Automated Patrol Telescope | |
ARC | (organization) Ames Research Center | |
ARC | (organization) Astrophysical Research Consortium | |
ASA | (organization) Astronomical Society of the Atlantic | |
ASI | (organization) Agenzia Spaziale Italiana | |
ASIAA | (organization) Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics | |
ASP | (organization) Astronomical Society of the Pacific | |
ASTRO | (spacecraft) Autonomous Space Transport Robotic Operations | |
ATA | (telescope) Allen Telescope Array, a radio interferometer array developed by the SETI Institute to search for possible signals from extraterrestrial life | |
ATCA | (telescope) Australia Telescope Compact Array | |
ATM | (person) hobbyist engaged in Amateur telescope making (may also refer to the book of the same title, Amateur Telescope Making) | |
AU | (measurement) Astronomical Unit, the distance between the Earth and the Sun | |
AUASS | (organization) Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Sciences | |
AURA | (organization) Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy | |
AWCA | (meeting) American Workshop on Cometary Astronomy, an older name for the International Workshop on Cometary Astronomy | |
AXAF | (telescope) Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility, an older name for the Chandra X-ray Observatory | |
AXP | (celestial object) Anomalous X-Ray Pulsar | |
B | (catalog) Barnard catalog | |
BAA | (organization) British Astronomical Association | |
BAAS | (publication) Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society | |
BAC | (catalog) Bordeaux Astrographic Catalog | |
BAO | (organization) Beijing Astronomical Observatory | |
BASIS | (observing program) Burst and All Sky Imaging Survey | |
BAT | (instrumentation) Burst Alert Telescope, an instrument on SWIFT | |
BATC | (observing program) Beijing-Arizona-Taiwan-Connecticut, the name of a multi-wavelength sky survey | |
BATSE | (instrument) Burst and Transient Source Experiment, an instrument on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory | |
BATTeRS | (telescope) Bisei Asteroid Tracking Telescope for Rapid Survey | |
BB | (astrophysics terminology) Black Body | |
BBXRT | (telescope) Broad Band X-Ray Telescope | |
BCD | (celestial object) Blue Compact Dwarf | |
BCD | (software) Basic Calibrated Data, data produced after basic processing | |
BCEP | (celestial object) Beta CEPhei, a class of pulsating variable stars for which Beta Cephei is the archetypal object | |
BCG | (celestial object) Blue Compact Galaxy, another name for a blue compact dwarf, also Bright Central Galaxy | |
BCG | (celestial object) Brightest Cluster Galaxy, the brightest galaxy in a cluster of galaxies | |
BCVS | (catalog) Bibliographic Catalogue of Variable Stars | |
BD | (catalog) Bonner Durchmusterung | |
BD | (celestial object) Brown Dwarf |