astronomy
951 abbreviations
Abbreviation | Meaning | |
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CfA | (organization) Center for Astrophysics | |
CFHT | (telescope) Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope | |
CFRS | (observing program), Canada-France Redshift Survey | |
CG | (astrophysics terminology) Center of Gravity | |
CG | (celestial object) Cometary Globule, a Bok globule that show signs of a tail-like extension | |
CG | (celestial object) Compact Galaxy | |
CGCS | (celestial object) Cool Galactic Carbon Star | |
CGRO | (telescope) Compton Gamma Ray Observatory | |
CGRO | (telescope) COMPton TELescope, another name for the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory | |
CGSS | (catalog) Catalogue of Galactic S Stars | |
CHARA | (organization) Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy | |
CIAO | (software) Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations, software for processing Chandra X-ray Observatory data | |
CIAO | (instrumentation) Coronagraphic Imager with Adaptive Optics, an instrument for the Subaru Telescope | |
CIBR | (celestial object) Cosmic Infrared Background Radiation | |
CIDA | (instrumentation) Cometary Interplanetary Dust Analyzer, an instrument on the Stardust spacecraft | |
CINEOS | (observing program) Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey | |
CIO | (catalog) Catalog of Infrared Observations | |
CISCO | (instrumentation) Cooled Infrared Spectrograph and Camera for OHS, an instrument for the Subaru Telescope | |
CM | (astrophysics terminology) Center of Mass | |
CMBR | (celestial object) Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation | |
CMC | (catalog) Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue | |
CMD | (astrophysics terminology) Color-Magnitude Diagram, the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram or similar diagrams | |
CNB | (celestial object) Cosmic Neutrino Background | |
CNES | (organization) Centre Nationale d'Etudes Spatiales, the French Space Agency | |
CNO | (astrophysics terminology) Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen, a sequence of nuclear fusion processes | |
CNR | (organization) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche | |
CNSR | (spacecraft) Comet Nucleus Sample Return | |
COBE | (telescope) Cosmic Background Explorer, a space telescope used to study the cosmic microwave background radiation | |
COHSI | (instrumentation) Cambridge OH-Suppression Instrument | |
Col | (catalog) Collinder catalog | |
COMICS | (instrumentation) COoled Mid-Infrared Camera and Spectrometer, an instrument for the Subaru Telescope | |
COROT | (telescope) COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits, a space telescope for detecting extrasolar planets | |
COSPAR | (organization) COmmittee on SPAce Research | |
COSTAR | (instrumentation) Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement, corrective optics for the Hubble Space Telescope | |
CP | (astrophysics terminology) Chemically Peculiar, stars with peculiar chemical compositions | |
CPD | (catalog) Cape Photographic Durchmusterung | |
CRAF | (spacecraft) Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby | |
CSA | (organization) Canadian Space Agency | |
CSBN | (organization) Committee for Small-Body Nomenclature | |
CSE | (celestial object) Circumstellar Envelope, a roughly spherical planetary nebula formed from dense stellar wind if not present before the formation of a star. | |
CSI | (catalog) Catalog of Stellar Identification, a compilation of the catalogs, BD, CD, and CPD | |
CSO | (telescope) Caltech Submillimeter Observatory | |
CSPN | (celestial object) Central Star of Planetary Nebula | |
CSS | (observing program) Catalina Sky Survey | |
CST | (astrophysics terminology) ConStanT, non-variable stars | |
CSV | (catalog) Catalog of Suspected Variables | |
CTIO | (telescope/organization) Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory | |
CTTS | (celestial object) Classical T-Tauri Star | |
CV | (celestial object) Cataclysmic Variable, a type of variable binary star system that contains a white dwarf and a companion star that changes | |
CW | (celestial object) Cepheid W Virginis, a class of Cepheids named after W Virginis, the archetype for the class |