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href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himmelsk%C3%B6rper" title="Himmelskörper – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Himmelskörper" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-am mw-list-item"><a href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%88%A0%E1%88%9B%E1%8B%AB%E1%8B%8A_%E1%8A%A0%E1%8A%AB%E1%88%8B%E1%89%B5" title="ሠማያዊ አካላት – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="ሠማያዊ አካላት" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%85_%D9%81%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A" title="جرم فلكي – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="جرم فلكي" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxetu_astron%C3%B3micu" title="Oxetu astronómicu – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Oxetu astronómicu" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gn mw-list-item"><a href="https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yv%C3%A1ga_mba%27e" title="Yvága mba'e – Guarani" lang="gn" hreflang="gn" data-title="Yvága mba'e" data-language-autonym="Avañe'ẽ" data-language-local-name="Guarani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Avañe'ẽ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6y_cismi" title="Göy cismi – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Göy cismi" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%88%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9E%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%81" title="জ্যোতির্বৈজ্ঞানিক বস্তু – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="জ্যোতির্বৈজ্ঞানিক বস্তু" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thian-th%C3%A9" title="Thian-thé – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Thian-thé" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%96%D1%87%D0%BD%D1%8B_%D0%B0%D0%B1%E2%80%99%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82" title="Астранамічны аб’ект – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Астранамічны аб’ект" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%96%D1%87%D0%BD%D1%8B_%D0%B0%D0%B1%E2%80%99%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82" title="Астранамічны аб’ект – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Астранамічны аб’ект" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82" title="Астрономически обект – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Астрономически обект" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomski_objekt" title="Astronomski objekt – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Astronomski objekt" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korf-egor" title="Korf-egor – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Korf-egor" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objecte_astron%C3%B2mic" title="Objecte astronòmic – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Objecte astronòmic" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%8A%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%87%C4%95" title="Астрономи объекчĕ – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Астрономи объекчĕ" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomick%C3%BD_objekt" title="Astronomický objekt – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Astronomický objekt" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himmellegeme" title="Himmellegeme – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Himmellegeme" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomisches_Objekt" title="Astronomisches Objekt – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Astronomisches Objekt" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://dsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomiski_objekt" title="Astronomiski objekt – Lower Sorbian" lang="dsb" hreflang="dsb" data-title="Astronomiski objekt" data-language-autonym="Dolnoserbski" data-language-local-name="Lower Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dolnoserbski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taevakeha" title="Taevakeha – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Taevakeha" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9F%CF%85%CF%81%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BF_%CF%83%CF%8E%CE%BC%CE%B1" title="Ουράνιο σώμα – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ουράνιο σώμα" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objeto_astron%C3%B3mico" title="Objeto astronómico – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Objeto astronómico" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro" title="Astro – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Astro" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argizagi" title="Argizagi – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Argizagi" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A2%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C" title="اجرام آسمانی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="اجرام آسمانی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objet_c%C3%A9leste" title="Objet céleste – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Objet céleste" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himellichem" title="Himellichem – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Himellichem" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9ad_r%C3%A9alteola%C3%ADoch" title="Réad réalteolaíoch – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Réad réalteolaíoch" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obxecto_astron%C3%B3mico" title="Obxecto astronómico – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Obxecto astronómico" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B2%9C%EC%B2%B4" title="천체 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="천체" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D5%BD%D5%BF%D5%B2%D5%A1%D5%A3%D5%AB%D5%BF%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%B4%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%B4%D5%AB%D5%B6" title="Աստղագիտական մարմին – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Աստղագիտական մարմին" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AF_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%81" title="खगोलीय वस्तु – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="खगोलीय वस्तु" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomski_objekt" title="Astronomski objekt – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Astronomski objekt" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro" title="Astro – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Astro" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objek_astronomi" title="Objek astronomi – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Objek astronomi" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stjarnfr%C3%A6%C3%B0ilegt_fyrirb%C3%A6ri" title="Stjarnfræðilegt fyrirbæri – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Stjarnfræðilegt fyrirbæri" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oggetto_celeste" title="Oggetto celeste – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Oggetto celeste" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%9D_%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D" title="גרם שמיים – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="גרם שמיים" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%AE%E1%83%94%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98" title="ციური სხეული – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ციური სხეული" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ks mw-list-item"><a href="https://ks.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8E%D8%A8%D9%95%D9%86%D8%A0_%D8%AF%D8%A0%DB%81" title="نَبٕنؠ دؠہ – Kashmiri" lang="ks" hreflang="ks" data-title="نَبٕنؠ دؠہ" data-language-autonym="कॉशुर / کٲشُر" data-language-local-name="Kashmiri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>कॉशुर / کٲشُر</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiolwa_cha_angani" title="Kiolwa cha angani – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Kiolwa cha angani" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_caeleste" title="Corpus caeleste – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Corpus caeleste" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomisks_objekts" title="Astronomisks objekts – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Astronomisks objekts" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himmelskierper" title="Himmelskierper – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Himmelskierper" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangaus_k%C5%ABnas" title="Dangaus kūnas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Dangaus kūnas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hie%C3%ABmellichaam" title="Hieëmellichaam – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="Hieëmellichaam" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Limburgs</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ln mw-list-item"><a href="https://ln.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monz%C9%94%CC%81t%C9%94" title="Monzɔ́tɔ – Lingala" lang="ln" hreflang="ln" data-title="Monzɔ́tɔ" data-language-autonym="Lingála" data-language-local-name="Lingala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lingála</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89gitest" title="Égitest – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Égitest" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE" title="Астрономско тело – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Астрономско тело" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zavatra_ara-kainkintana" title="Zavatra ara-kainkintana – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Zavatra ara-kainkintana" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AF_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%82" title="खगोलीय वस्तू – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="खगोलीय वस्तू" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%90%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A2%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9C%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98_%E1%83%9D%E1%83%91%E1%83%98%E1%83%94%E1%83%A5%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98" title="ასტრონომიული ობიექტი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="ასტრონომიული ობიექტი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objek_astronomi" title="Objek astronomi – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Objek astronomi" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%BD_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%8A%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82" title="Астрономийн объект – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Астрономийн объект" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pcm mw-list-item"><a href="https://pcm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomikal_objekt" title="Astronomikal objekt – Nigerian Pidgin" lang="pcm" hreflang="pcm" data-title="Astronomikal objekt" data-language-autonym="Naijá" data-language-local-name="Nigerian Pidgin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Naijá</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemellichaam" title="Hemellichaam – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Hemellichaam" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AF_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%81" title="खगोलीय वस्तु – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="खगोलीय वस्तु" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A9%E4%BD%93" title="天体 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="天体" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himmellegeme" title="Himmellegeme – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Himmellegeme" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himmellekam" title="Himmellekam – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Himmellekam" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mhr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mhr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%8A%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82" title="Астрономический объект – Eastern Mari" lang="mhr" hreflang="mhr" data-title="Астрономический объект" data-language-autonym="Олык марий" data-language-local-name="Eastern Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Олык марий</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-om mw-list-item"><a href="https://om.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qaamolee_samii" title="Qaamolee samii – Oromo" lang="om" hreflang="om" data-title="Qaamolee samii" data-language-autonym="Oromoo" data-language-local-name="Oromo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oromoo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%96%E0%A8%97%E0%A9%8B%E0%A8%B2%E0%A9%80_%E0%A8%9A%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%BC" title="ਖਗੋਲੀ ਚੀਜ਼ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਖਗੋਲੀ ਚੀਜ਼" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%81%D9%84%DA%A9%DB%8C" title="اجرام فلکی – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="اجرام فلکی" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A_%D8%B4%DB%8C" title="نجومي شی – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="نجومي شی" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cia%C5%82o_niebieskie" title="Ciało niebieskie – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Ciało niebieskie" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objeto_astron%C3%B4mico" title="Objeto astronômico – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Objeto astronômico" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corp_ceresc" title="Corp ceresc – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Corp ceresc" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanan_pacha_pachanka" title="Hanan pacha pachanka – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Hanan pacha pachanka" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%8A%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82" title="Астрономический объект – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Астрономический объект" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szy mw-list-item"><a href="https://szy.wikipedia.org/wiki/bunac" title="bunac – Sakizaya" lang="szy" hreflang="szy" data-title="bunac" data-language-autonym="Sakizaya" data-language-local-name="Sakizaya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sakizaya</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-skr mw-list-item"><a href="https://skr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%81%D9%84%DA%A9%DB%8C" title="اجرام فلکی – Saraiki" lang="skr" hreflang="skr" data-title="اجرام فلکی" data-language-autonym="سرائیکی" data-language-local-name="Saraiki" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سرائیکی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objektet_astronomike" title="Objektet astronomike – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Objektet astronomike" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpu_cilesti" title="Corpu cilesti – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Corpu cilesti" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_object" title="Astronomical object – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Astronomical object" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomick%C3%BD_objekt" title="Astronomický objekt – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Astronomický objekt" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomsko_telo" title="Astronomsko telo – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Astronomsko telo" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astr%C5%8Dn%C5%8Dmiczny_%C3%B4biekt" title="Astrōnōmiczny ôbiekt – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="Astrōnōmiczny ôbiekt" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ślůnski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%DB%95%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%A6%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C" title="تەنی ئاسمانی – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="تەنی ئاسمانی" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE" title="Небеско тело – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Небеско тело" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebesko_tijelo" title="Nebesko tijelo – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Nebesko tijelo" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taivaankappale" title="Taivaankappale – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Taivaankappale" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himlakropp" title="Himlakropp – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Himlakropp" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8A%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B3%E0%AF%8D" title="வானியல்சார் பொருள் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="வானியல்சார் பொருள்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kab mw-list-item"><a href="https://kab.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafekka_tagnnawt" title="Tafekka tagnnawt – Kabyle" lang="kab" hreflang="kab" data-title="Tafekka tagnnawt" data-language-autonym="Taqbaylit" data-language-local-name="Kabyle" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Taqbaylit</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D2%AF%D0%BA_%D2%97%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5" title="Күк җисеме – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Күк җисеме" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%96%E0%B8%B8%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A8%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C" title="วัตถุทางดาราศาสตร์ – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="วัตถุทางดาราศาสตร์" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomik_cisim" title="Astronomik cisim – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Astronomik cisim" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tk mw-list-item"><a href="https://tk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asman_jisimleri" title="Asman jisimleri – Turkmen" lang="tk" hreflang="tk" data-title="Asman jisimleri" data-language-autonym="Türkmençe" 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style="width:157px;max-width:157px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:154px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Neptune" title="Planet Neptune, an ice giant"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Neptune_Voyager2_color_calibrated.png/155px-Neptune_Voyager2_color_calibrated.png" decoding="async" width="155" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Neptune_Voyager2_color_calibrated.png/233px-Neptune_Voyager2_color_calibrated.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Neptune_Voyager2_color_calibrated.png/310px-Neptune_Voyager2_color_calibrated.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1200" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:107px;max-width:107px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:104px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Sun" title="The Sun, a G-type star"><img alt="" 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typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Pleiades" title="Pleiades, an open star cluster"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Pleiades_large.jpg/183px-Pleiades_large.jpg" decoding="async" width="183" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Pleiades_large.jpg/275px-Pleiades_large.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Pleiades_large.jpg/366px-Pleiades_large.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4877" data-file-height="3515" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:192px;max-width:192px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:132px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Whirlpool_galaxy" title="The Whirlpool galaxy"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Messier51_sRGB.jpg/190px-Messier51_sRGB.jpg" decoding="async" width="190" height="132" class="mw-file-element" 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data-file-height="4360" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:112px;max-width:112px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:100px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Hubble_Ultra-Deep_Field" title="The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field 2014 image with an estimated 10,000 galaxies"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/NASA-HS201427a-HubbleUltraDeepField2014-20140603.jpg/110px-NASA-HS201427a-HubbleUltraDeepField2014-20140603.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/NASA-HS201427a-HubbleUltraDeepField2014-20140603.jpg/165px-NASA-HS201427a-HubbleUltraDeepField2014-20140603.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/NASA-HS201427a-HubbleUltraDeepField2014-20140603.jpg/220px-NASA-HS201427a-HubbleUltraDeepField2014-20140603.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2300" data-file-height="2100" 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<b>heavenly body</b> is a naturally occurring <a href="/wiki/Physical_object" title="Physical object">physical entity</a>, association, or structure that exists within the <a href="/wiki/Observable_universe" title="Observable universe">observable universe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Astronomy" title="Astronomy">astronomy</a>, the terms <i>object</i> and <i>body</i> are often used interchangeably. However, an <b>astronomical body</b> or <b>celestial body</b> is a single, tightly bound, contiguous entity, while an astronomical or celestial <i>object</i> is a complex, less cohesively bound structure, which may consist of multiple bodies or even other objects with substructures. </p><p>Examples of astronomical objects include <a href="/wiki/Planetary_system" title="Planetary system">planetary systems</a>, <a href="/wiki/Star_cluster" title="Star cluster">star clusters</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nebula" title="Nebula">nebulae</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Galaxy" title="Galaxy">galaxies</a>, while <a href="/wiki/Asteroid" title="Asteroid">asteroids</a>, <a href="/wiki/Natural_satellite" title="Natural satellite">moons</a>, <a href="/wiki/Planet" title="Planet">planets</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Star" title="Star">stars</a> are astronomical bodies. A <a href="/wiki/Comet" title="Comet">comet</a> may be identified as both a body and an object: It is a <i>body</i> when referring to the frozen <a href="/wiki/Comet_nucleus" title="Comet nucleus">nucleus</a> of ice and dust, and an <i>object</i> when describing the entire comet with its diffuse <a href="/wiki/Coma_(cometary)" class="mw-redirect" title="Coma (cometary)">coma</a> and <a href="/wiki/Comet_tail" title="Comet tail">tail</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Astronomical_object&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/History_of_astronomy" title="History of astronomy">History of astronomy</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Scientific_Revolution" title="Scientific Revolution">Scientific Revolution</a> and <a href="/wiki/Copernican_Revolution" title="Copernican Revolution">Copernican Revolution</a></div> <p>Astronomical objects such as <a href="/wiki/Star" title="Star">stars</a>, <a href="/wiki/Planet" title="Planet">planets</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nebula" title="Nebula">nebulae</a>, <a href="/wiki/Asteroid" title="Asteroid">asteroids</a> and <a href="/wiki/Comet" title="Comet">comets</a> have been observed for thousands of years, although early <a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">cultures</a> thought of these bodies as <a href="/wiki/Gods" class="mw-redirect" title="Gods">gods</a> or deities. These early cultures found the movements of the bodies very important as they used these objects to help navigate over long distances, tell between the seasons, and to determine when to plant crops. During the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle-Ages</a>, cultures began to study the movements of these bodies more closely. Several astronomers of the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle-East</a> began to make detailed descriptions of stars and nebulae, and would make more accurate calendars based on the movements of these stars and planets. In <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>, astronomers focused more on devices to help study the celestial objects and creating textbooks, guides, and <a href="/wiki/Universities" class="mw-redirect" title="Universities">universities</a> to teach people more about astronomy. </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Scientific_Revolution" title="Scientific Revolution">Scientific Revolution</a>, in 1543, <a href="/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus" title="Nicolaus Copernicus">Nicolaus Copernicus's</a> <a href="/wiki/Heliocentrism" title="Heliocentrism">heliocentric model</a> was published. This model described the <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a>, along with all of the other planets as being astronomical bodies which orbited the <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">Sun</a> located in the center of the <a href="/wiki/Solar_System" title="Solar System">Solar System</a>. <a href="/wiki/Johannes_Kepler" title="Johannes Kepler">Johannes Kepler</a> discovered <a href="/wiki/Kepler%27s_laws_of_planetary_motion" title="Kepler's laws of planetary motion">Kepler's laws of planetary motion</a>, which are properties of the orbits that the astronomical bodies shared; this was used to improve the heliocentric model. In 1584, <a href="/wiki/Giordano_Bruno" title="Giordano Bruno">Giordano Bruno</a> proposed that all distant stars are their own suns, being the first in centuries to suggest this idea. <a href="/wiki/Galileo_Galilei" title="Galileo Galilei">Galileo Galilei</a> was one of the first astronomers to use telescopes to observe the sky, in 1610 he observed the four largest moons of <a href="/wiki/Jupiter" title="Jupiter">Jupiter</a>, now named the <a href="/wiki/Galilean_moons" title="Galilean moons">Galilean moons</a>. Galileo also made observations of the phases of <a href="/wiki/Venus" title="Venus">Venus</a>, craters on the <a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sunspot" title="Sunspot">sunspots</a> on the Sun. Astronomer <a href="/wiki/Edmond_Halley" title="Edmond Halley">Edmond Halley</a> was able to successfully predict the return of <a href="/wiki/Halley%27s_Comet" title="Halley's Comet">Halley's Comet</a>, which now bears his name, in 1758. In 1781, <a href="/wiki/Sir_William_Herschel" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir William Herschel">Sir William Herschel</a> discovered the new planet <a href="/wiki/Uranus" title="Uranus">Uranus</a>, being the first discovered planet not visible by the naked eye. </p><p>In the 19th and 20th century, new technologies and scientific innovations allowed scientists to greatly expand their understanding of astronomy and astronomical objects. Larger telescopes and observatories began to be built and scientists began to print images of the Moon and other celestial bodies on photographic plates. New <a href="/wiki/Wavelength" title="Wavelength">wavelengths</a> of light unseen by the human eye were discovered, and new telescopes were made that made it possible to see astronomical objects in other wavelengths of light. <a href="/wiki/Joseph_von_Fraunhofer" title="Joseph von Fraunhofer">Joseph von Fraunhofer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Angelo_Secchi" title="Angelo Secchi">Angelo Secchi</a> pioneered the field of <a href="/wiki/Spectroscopy" title="Spectroscopy">spectroscopy</a>, which allowed them to observe the composition of stars and nebulae, and many astronomers were able to determine the masses of binary stars based on their <a href="/wiki/Orbital_elements" title="Orbital elements">orbital elements</a>. Computers began to be used to observe and study massive amounts of astronomical data on stars, and new technologies such as the <a href="/wiki/Photoelectric_effect" title="Photoelectric effect">photoelectric</a> <a href="/wiki/Photometer" title="Photometer">photometer</a> allowed astronomers to accurately measure the color and luminosity of stars, which allowed them to predict their temperature and mass. In 1913, the <a href="/wiki/Hertzsprung-Russell_diagram" class="mw-redirect" title="Hertzsprung-Russell diagram">Hertzsprung-Russell diagram</a> was developed by astronomers <a href="/wiki/Ejnar_Hertzsprung" title="Ejnar Hertzsprung">Ejnar Hertzsprung</a> and <a href="/wiki/Henry_Norris_Russell" title="Henry Norris Russell">Henry Norris Russell</a> independently of each other, which plotted stars based on their luminosity and color and allowed astronomers to easily examine stars. It was found that stars commonly fell on a band of stars called the <a href="/wiki/Main_sequence" title="Main sequence">main-sequence</a> stars on the diagram. A refined scheme for <a href="/wiki/Stellar_classification" title="Stellar classification">stellar classification</a> was published in 1943 by <a href="/wiki/William_Wilson_Morgan" title="William Wilson Morgan">William Wilson Morgan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Philip_Childs_Keenan" title="Philip Childs Keenan">Philip Childs Keenan</a> based on the Hertzsprung-Russel Diagram. Astronomers also began debating whether other galaxies existed beyond the <a href="/wiki/Milky_Way" title="Milky Way">Milky Way</a>, these debates ended when <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Hubble" title="Edwin Hubble">Edwin Hubble</a> identified the <a href="/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy" title="Andromeda Galaxy">Andromeda nebula</a> as a different galaxy, along with many others far from the Milky Way. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Galaxy_and_larger">Galaxy and larger</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Astronomical_object&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Galaxy and larger"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">universe</a> can be viewed as having a hierarchical structure.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the largest scales, the fundamental component of assembly is the <a href="/wiki/Galaxy" title="Galaxy">galaxy</a>. Galaxies are organized into <a href="/wiki/Galaxy_groups_and_clusters" title="Galaxy groups and clusters">groups and clusters</a>, often within larger <a href="/wiki/Supercluster" title="Supercluster">superclusters</a>, that are strung along great <a href="/wiki/Galaxy_filament" title="Galaxy filament">filaments</a> between nearly empty <a href="/wiki/Void_(astronomy)" title="Void (astronomy)">voids</a>, forming a web that spans the observable universe.<sup id="cite_ref-smolin1998_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-smolin1998-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Galaxies have a variety of <a href="/wiki/Galaxy_morphological_classification" title="Galaxy morphological classification">morphologies</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Irregular_galaxy" title="Irregular galaxy">irregular</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elliptical_galaxy" title="Elliptical galaxy">elliptical</a> and <a href="/wiki/Disc_galaxy" title="Disc galaxy">disk-like</a> shapes, depending on their formation and evolutionary histories, including <a href="/wiki/Interacting_galaxy" title="Interacting galaxy">interaction</a> with other galaxies, which may lead to a <a href="/wiki/Galaxy_merger" title="Galaxy merger">merger</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Disc galaxies encompass <a href="/wiki/Lenticular_galaxy" title="Lenticular galaxy">lenticular</a> and <a href="/wiki/Spiral_galaxy" title="Spiral galaxy">spiral galaxies</a> with features, such as <a href="/wiki/Spiral_galaxy#Spiral_arms" title="Spiral galaxy">spiral arms</a> and a distinct <a href="/wiki/Galactic_halo" title="Galactic halo">halo</a>. At the core, most galaxies have a <a href="/wiki/Supermassive_black_hole" title="Supermassive black hole">supermassive black hole</a>, which may result in an <a href="/wiki/Active_galactic_nucleus" title="Active galactic nucleus">active galactic nucleus</a>. Galaxies can also have satellites in the form of <a href="/wiki/Dwarf_galaxy" title="Dwarf galaxy">dwarf galaxies</a> and <a href="/wiki/Globular_cluster" title="Globular cluster">globular clusters</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Within_a_galaxy">Within a galaxy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Astronomical_object&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Within a galaxy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The constituents of a galaxy are formed out of gaseous matter that assembles through gravitational self-attraction in a hierarchical manner. At this level, the resulting fundamental components are the stars, which are typically assembled in clusters from the various condensing nebulae.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The great variety of stellar forms are determined almost entirely by the mass, composition and evolutionary state of these stars. Stars may be found in multi-star systems that orbit about each other in a hierarchical organization. A planetary system and various minor objects such as asteroids, comets and debris, can form in a hierarchical process of accretion from the <a href="/wiki/Protoplanetary_disk" title="Protoplanetary disk">protoplanetary disks</a> that surround newly formed stars. </p><p>The various distinctive types of stars are shown by the <a href="/wiki/Hertzsprung%E2%80%93Russell_diagram" title="Hertzsprung–Russell diagram">Hertzsprung–Russell diagram</a> (H–R diagram)—a plot of absolute stellar luminosity versus surface temperature. Each star follows an <a href="/wiki/Evolutionary_track" class="mw-redirect" title="Evolutionary track">evolutionary track</a> across this diagram. If this track takes the star through a region containing an <a href="/wiki/Intrinsic_variable" class="mw-redirect" title="Intrinsic variable">intrinsic variable</a> type, then its physical properties can cause it to become a <a href="/wiki/Variable_star" title="Variable star">variable star</a>. An example of this is the <a href="/wiki/Instability_strip" title="Instability strip">instability strip</a>, a region of the H-R diagram that includes <a href="/wiki/Delta_Scuti_variable" title="Delta Scuti variable">Delta Scuti</a>, <a href="/wiki/RR_Lyrae_variable" title="RR Lyrae variable">RR Lyrae</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cepheid_variable" title="Cepheid variable">Cepheid variables</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hansen_et_al2004_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hansen_et_al2004-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The evolving star may eject some portion of its atmosphere to form a nebula, either steadily to form a <a href="/wiki/Planetary_nebula" title="Planetary nebula">planetary nebula</a> or in a <a href="/wiki/Supernova" title="Supernova">supernova</a> explosion that leaves a <a href="/wiki/Supernova_remnant" title="Supernova remnant">remnant</a>. Depending on the initial mass of the star and the presence or absence of a companion, a star may spend the last part of its life as a <a href="/wiki/Compact_star" class="mw-redirect" title="Compact star">compact object</a>; either a <a href="/wiki/White_dwarf" title="White dwarf">white dwarf</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neutron_star" title="Neutron star">neutron star</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Black_hole" title="Black hole">black hole</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Shape">Shape<span class="anchor" id="Shapes"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Astronomical_object&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Shape"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Spherical_Earth#Cause" title="Spherical Earth">Spherical Earth § Cause</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Equatorial_bulge" title="Equatorial bulge">Equatorial bulge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hydrostatic_equilibrium#Planetary_geology" title="Hydrostatic equilibrium">Hydrostatic equilibrium § Planetary geology</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Eros,_Vesta_and_Ceres_size_comparison.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Eros%2C_Vesta_and_Ceres_size_comparison.jpg/220px-Eros%2C_Vesta_and_Ceres_size_comparison.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Eros%2C_Vesta_and_Ceres_size_comparison.jpg/330px-Eros%2C_Vesta_and_Ceres_size_comparison.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Eros%2C_Vesta_and_Ceres_size_comparison.jpg/440px-Eros%2C_Vesta_and_Ceres_size_comparison.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1497" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption>Composite image showing the round dwarf planet <a href="/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)" title="Ceres (dwarf planet)">Ceres</a>; the slightly smaller, mostly round <a href="/wiki/4_Vesta" title="4 Vesta">Vesta</a>; and the much smaller, much lumpier <a href="/wiki/433_Eros" title="433 Eros">Eros</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/IAU_definition_of_planet" title="IAU definition of planet">IAU definitions of planet</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dwarf_planet" title="Dwarf planet">dwarf planet</a> require that a Sun-orbiting astronomical body has undergone the rounding process to reach a roughly spherical shape, an achievement known as <a href="/wiki/Hydrostatic_equilibrium" title="Hydrostatic equilibrium">hydrostatic equilibrium</a>. The same <a href="/wiki/Spheroidal" class="mw-redirect" title="Spheroidal">spheroidal</a> shape can be seen on smaller rocky planets like <a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a> to <a href="/wiki/Gas_giant" title="Gas giant">gas giants</a> like <a href="/wiki/Jupiter" title="Jupiter">Jupiter</a>. </p><p>Any natural Sun-orbiting body that has not reached hydrostatic equilibrium is classified by the IAU as a <a href="/wiki/Small_Solar_System_body" title="Small Solar System body">small Solar System body</a> (SSSB). These come in many non-spherical shapes which are lumpy masses accreted haphazardly by in-falling dust and rock; not enough mass falls in to generate the heat needed to complete the rounding. Some SSSBs are just collections of relatively small rocks that are weakly held next to each other by gravity but are not actually fused into a single big <a href="/wiki/Bedrock" title="Bedrock">bedrock</a>. Some larger SSSBs are nearly round but have not reached hydrostatic equilibrium. The small Solar System body <a href="/wiki/4_Vesta" title="4 Vesta">4 Vesta</a> is large enough to have undergone at least partial planetary differentiation. </p><p>Stars like the Sun are also spheroidal due to gravity's effects on their <a href="/wiki/Plasma_(physics)" title="Plasma (physics)">plasma</a>, which is a free-flowing <a href="/wiki/Fluid" title="Fluid">fluid</a>. Ongoing <a href="/wiki/Stellar_fusion" class="mw-redirect" title="Stellar fusion">stellar fusion</a> is a much greater source of heat for stars compared to the initial heat released during their formation. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Categories_by_location">Categories by location</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Astronomical_object&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Categories by location"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Lists_of_astronomical_objects" title="Lists of astronomical objects">Lists of astronomical objects</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Solar_System_objects_by_size" title="List of Solar System objects by size">List of Solar System objects by size</a></div> <p>The table below lists the general categories of bodies and objects by their location or structure. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="white-space: nowrap;"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2" valign="middle">Solar bodies </th> <th colspan="3">Extrasolar </th> <th rowspan="2" valign="middle"><a href="/wiki/Observable_universe" title="Observable universe">Observable universe</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th>Simple bodies </th> <th>Compound objects </th> <th>Extended objects </th></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td> <div style="background-color: #ccffcc; border-top: 1px solid #00CC00; font-size: bigger; padding-left: 15px; margin: 12px -5px -5px -5px;"><a href="/wiki/Solar_System" title="Solar System">Solar System</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Terrestrial_planet" title="Terrestrial planet">Terrestrial planet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giant_planet" title="Giant planet">Giant planet</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gas_giant" title="Gas giant">Gas giant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ice_giant" title="Ice giant">Ice giant</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heliosphere" title="Heliosphere">Heliosphere</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oort_cloud" title="Oort cloud">Oort cloud</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hills_Cloud" class="mw-redirect" title="Hills Cloud">Hills Cloud</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meteoroid" title="Meteoroid">Meteoroid</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Micrometeoroid" title="Micrometeoroid">Micrometeoroid</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meteor" title="Meteor">Meteor</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bolide" title="Bolide">Bolide</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moons_of_the_Solar_System" class="mw-redirect" title="Moons of the Solar System">Moons</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Moonlet" title="Moonlet">Moonlets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subsatellite" title="Subsatellite">Subsatellites</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(hypothet.)</span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minor_planets" class="mw-redirect" title="Minor planets">Minor planets</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(see below)</span> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asteroid" title="Asteroid">Asteroids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dwarf_planet" title="Dwarf planet">Dwarf planets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minor-planet_moon" title="Minor-planet moon">Moons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Binary_asteroid" title="Binary asteroid">Binaries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Synestia" title="Synestia">Synestia</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(hypothet.)</span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Planet" title="Planet">Planets</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(see below)</span> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ring_system_(astronomy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ring system (astronomy)">Ring system</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trans-Neptunian_object" title="Trans-Neptunian object">Trans-Neptunian objects</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Small_Solar_System_body" title="Small Solar System body">Small Solar System body</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Comet" title="Comet">Comets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Planetesimal" title="Planetesimal">Planetesimal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contact_binary_(small_Solar_System_body)" title="Contact binary (small Solar System body)">Contact binary</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">Sun</a></li></ul> <div style="background-color: #ccffcc; border-top: 1px solid #00CC00; font-size: bigger; padding-left: 15px; margin: 12px -5px -5px -5px;">Planets</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mercury_(planet)" title="Mercury (planet)">Mercury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venus" title="Venus">Venus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a> – <a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a> – <a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Mars" title="Moons of Mars">moons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jupiter" title="Jupiter">Jupiter</a> – <a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Jupiter" title="Moons of Jupiter">moons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saturn" title="Saturn">Saturn</a> – <a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Saturn" title="Moons of Saturn">moons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uranus" title="Uranus">Uranus</a> – <a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Uranus" title="Moons of Uranus">moons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neptune" title="Neptune">Neptune</a> – <a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Neptune" title="Moons of Neptune">moons</a></li></ul> <div style="background-color: #ccffcc; border-top: 1px solid #00CC00; font-size: bigger; padding-left: 15px; margin: 12px -5px -5px -5px;">Dwarf planets</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pluto" title="Pluto">Pluto</a> – <a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Pluto" title="Moons of Pluto">moons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eris_(dwarf_planet)" title="Eris (dwarf planet)">Eris</a> – <a href="/wiki/Dysnomia_(moon)" title="Dysnomia (moon)">Dysnomia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)" title="Ceres (dwarf planet)">Ceres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Makemake" title="Makemake">Makemake</a> – <a href="/wiki/S/2015_(136472)_1" title="S/2015 (136472) 1">moon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haumea" title="Haumea">Haumea</a> – <a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Haumea" title="Moons of Haumea">moons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quaoar" title="Quaoar">Quaoar</a> – <a href="/wiki/Weywot_(moon)" class="mw-redirect" title="Weywot (moon)">Weywot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orcus_(dwarf_planet)" title="Orcus (dwarf planet)">Orcus</a> – <a href="/wiki/Vanth_(moon)" title="Vanth (moon)">Vanth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gonggong_(dwarf_planet)" title="Gonggong (dwarf planet)">Gonggong</a> – <a href="/wiki/Xiangliu_(moon)" title="Xiangliu (moon)">Xiangliu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sedna_(dwarf_planet)" title="Sedna (dwarf planet)">Sedna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_possible_dwarf_planets" title="List of possible dwarf planets">Others</a></li></ul> <div style="background-color: #ccffcc; border-top: 1px solid #00CC00; font-size: bigger; padding-left: 15px; margin: 12px -5px -5px -5px;">Minor planets</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vulcanoid" title="Vulcanoid">Vulcanoids</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(hypothet.)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%EA%9E%8BAyl%C3%B3%EA%9E%8Cchaxnim_asteroid" class="mw-redirect" title="ꞋAylóꞌchaxnim asteroid">ꞌAylóꞌchaxnims</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atira_asteroid" title="Atira asteroid">Atiras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Near-Earth_object" title="Near-Earth object">Near-Earth objects</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Potentially_hazardous_object" title="Potentially hazardous object">PHO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arjuna_asteroid" title="Arjuna asteroid">Arjunas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aten_asteroid" title="Aten asteroid">Atens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_asteroid" title="Apollo asteroid">Apollos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amor_asteroid" title="Amor asteroid">Amors</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mars-crosser_asteroid" class="mw-redirect" title="Mars-crosser asteroid">Mars-crossers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asteroid_belt" title="Asteroid belt">Asteroid belt</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/Asteroid_family" title="Asteroid family">families</a>)</span> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alinda_family" class="mw-redirect" title="Alinda family">Alindas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cybele_asteroids" title="Cybele asteroids">Cybeles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eos_family" title="Eos family">Eos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flora_family" title="Flora family">Floras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hilda_asteroid" title="Hilda asteroid">Hildas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hungaria_family" title="Hungaria family">Hungarias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hygiea_family" title="Hygiea family">Hygieas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koronis_family" title="Koronis family">Koronis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maria_family" title="Maria family">Marias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nysa_family" title="Nysa family">Nysas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pallas_asteroid" class="mw-redirect" title="Pallas asteroid">Pallas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phocaea_family" title="Phocaea family">Phocaeas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Themis_family" title="Themis family">Themis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vesta_family" title="Vesta family">Vesta</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trojan_(astronomy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Trojan (astronomy)">Trojans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Earth_trojan" title="Earth trojan">Earth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mars_trojan" title="Mars trojan">Mars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jupiter_trojan" title="Jupiter trojan">Jupiter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uranus_trojan" class="mw-redirect" title="Uranus trojan">Uranus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neptune_trojan" title="Neptune trojan">Neptune</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centaur_(minor_planet)" class="mw-redirect" title="Centaur (minor planet)">Centaurs</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Damocloid" title="Damocloid">Damocloids</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuiper_belt" title="Kuiper belt">Kuiper belt</a> objects <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Classical_Kuiper-belt_object" class="mw-redirect" title="Classical Kuiper-belt object">Classical KBOs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Resonant_trans-Neptunian_object" title="Resonant trans-Neptunian object">Resonant TNOs</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Plutino" title="Plutino">Plutinos</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2:3)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Twotino" class="mw-redirect" title="Twotino">Twotinos</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1:2)</span></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scattered_disc" title="Scattered disc">Scattered disc</a> objects <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Detached_object" title="Detached object">Detached objects</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sednoid" title="Sednoid">Sednoid</a></li></ul> </td> <td> <div style="background-color: #FFCCCC; border-top: 1px solid #FF6666; font-size: bigger; padding-left: 15px; margin: 12px -5px -5px -5px;"><a href="/wiki/Exoplanet" title="Exoplanet">Exoplanets</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chthonian_planet" title="Chthonian planet">Chthonian</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(theoret.)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earth_analog" title="Earth analog">Earth analog</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eccentric_Jupiter" title="Eccentric Jupiter">Eccentric Jupiter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exomoon" title="Exomoon">Exomoon</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tidally_detached_exomoon" title="Tidally detached exomoon">Tidally detached exomoon</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exocomet" title="Exocomet">Exocomet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hot_Jupiter" title="Hot Jupiter">Hot Jupiter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hot_Neptune" title="Hot Neptune">Hot Neptune</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interstellar_planet" class="mw-redirect" title="Interstellar planet">Rogue planet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ocean_planet" class="mw-redirect" title="Ocean planet">Ocean</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(theoret.)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pulsar_planet" title="Pulsar planet">Pulsar planet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super-Earth" title="Super-Earth">Super-Earth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tidally_locked" class="mw-redirect" title="Tidally locked">Tidally locked planet</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eyeball_planet" title="Eyeball planet">Eyeball planet</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(theoret.)</span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toroidal_planet" title="Toroidal planet">Toroidal planet</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(theoret.)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trojan_planet" class="mw-redirect" title="Trojan planet">Trojan</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(theoret.)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ultra-short_period_planet" title="Ultra-short period planet">USP</a></li></ul> <div style="background-color: #FFD9B3; border-top: 1px solid #FF870F; font-size: bigger; padding-left: 15px; margin: 12px -5px -5px -5px;"><a href="/wiki/Brown_dwarf" title="Brown dwarf">Brown dwarfs</a></div> <ul><li>Types <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brown_dwarf#Spectral_class_M" title="Brown dwarf">M</a>  <b>·</b>  <a href="/wiki/Brown_dwarf#Spectral_class_L" title="Brown dwarf">L</a>  <b>·</b>  <a href="/wiki/Brown_dwarf#Spectral_class_T" title="Brown dwarf">T</a>  <b>·</b>  <a href="/wiki/Brown_dwarf#Spectral_class_Y" title="Brown dwarf">Y</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sub-brown_dwarf" title="Sub-brown dwarf">Sub-brown dwarfs</a></li></ul> <div style="background-color: #FFFF99; border-top: 1px solid #FFC966; font-size: bigger; padding-left: 15px; margin: 12px -5px -5px -5px;"><a href="/wiki/Star" title="Star">Stars</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(see sections below)</span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stellar_classification" title="Stellar classification">Stellar classification</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stellar_population" title="Stellar population">Stellar population</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">III, II, I</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peculiar_star" class="mw-redirect" title="Peculiar star">Peculiar star</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stellar_evolution" title="Stellar evolution">Stellar evolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Variable_star" title="Variable star">Variable star</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Compact_star" class="mw-redirect" title="Compact star">Compact star</a></li></ul> <div style="background-color: #FFFF99; border-top: 1px solid #FFC966; font-size: bigger; padding-left: 15px; margin: 12px -5px -5px -5px;">By luminosity / <a href="/wiki/Stellar_evolution" title="Stellar evolution">evolution</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Protostar" title="Protostar">Protostar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Young_stellar_object" title="Young stellar object">Young stellar object</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pre-main-sequence_star" title="Pre-main-sequence star">Pre-main-sequence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Main_sequence" title="Main sequence">Main sequence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subdwarf" title="Subdwarf">Subdwarfs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subgiant" title="Subgiant">Subgiants</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giant_star" title="Giant star">Giants</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Red_giant" title="Red giant">Red</a> / <a href="/wiki/Blue_giant" title="Blue giant">Blue</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bright_giant" class="mw-redirect" title="Bright giant">Bright giants</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supergiant" title="Supergiant">Supergiants</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Red_supergiant" title="Red supergiant">Red</a> / <a href="/wiki/Blue_supergiant" title="Blue supergiant">Blue</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hypergiant" title="Hypergiant">Hypergiants</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ultra-cool_dwarf" title="Ultra-cool dwarf">Ultra-cool dwarf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quasi-star" title="Quasi-star">Quasi-star</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(hypothet.)</span></li> <li>Compact stars <span style="font-size:85%;">(see below)</span></li></ul> <div style="background-color: #FFFF99; border-top: 1px solid #FFC966; font-size: bigger; padding-left: 15px; margin: 12px -5px -5px -5px;"><a href="/wiki/Compact_star" class="mw-redirect" title="Compact star">Compact stars</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Black_hole" title="Black hole">Black hole</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stellar_black_hole" title="Stellar black hole">Stellar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intermediate-mass_black_hole" title="Intermediate-mass black hole">Intermediate-mass</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supermassive_black_hole" title="Supermassive black hole">Supermassive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gamma_ray_burst" class="mw-redirect" title="Gamma ray burst">GRBs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Binary_black_hole" title="Binary black hole">BBHs</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exotic_star" title="Exotic star">Exotic star</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(hypothet.)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iron_star" title="Iron star">Iron star</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(hypothet.)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neutron_star" title="Neutron star">Neutron star</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blitzar" title="Blitzar">Blitzar</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(hypothet.)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magnetar" title="Magnetar">Magnetar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pulsar" title="Pulsar">Pulsar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thorne%E2%80%93%C5%BBytkow_object" title="Thorne–Żytkow object">Thorne–Żytkow object</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(hypothet.)</span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Planck_star" title="Planck star">Planck star</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(hypothet.)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Preon_star" class="mw-redirect" title="Preon star">Preon star</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(hypothet.)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quark_star" title="Quark star">Quark star</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(hypothet.)</span> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Strange_star" title="Strange star">Strange star</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(hypothet.)</span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_dwarf" title="White dwarf">White dwarf</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Black_dwarf" title="Black dwarf">Black dwarf</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(theoret.)</span></li></ul></li></ul> <div style="background-color: #FFFF99; border-top: 1px solid #FFC966; font-size: bigger; padding-left: 15px; margin: 12px -5px -5px -5px;">By <a href="/wiki/Peculiar_star" class="mw-redirect" title="Peculiar star">peculiar stars</a></div> <ul><li>A-type <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peculiar_A-type_star" class="mw-redirect" title="Peculiar A-type star">Peculiar</a>  <b>·</b>  <a href="/wiki/Metallic_A-type_star" class="mw-redirect" title="Metallic A-type star">Metallic</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barium_star" title="Barium star">Barium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blue_straggler" title="Blue straggler">Blue straggler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carbon_star" title="Carbon star">Carbon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P_Cygni_star" class="mw-redirect" title="P Cygni star">P Cygni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S-type_star" title="S-type star">S-type</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shell_star" title="Shell star">Shell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolf%E2%80%93Rayet_star" title="Wolf–Rayet star">Wolf–Rayet</a></li></ul> <div style="background-color: #FFFF99; border-top: 1px solid #FFC966; font-size: bigger; padding-left: 15px; margin: 12px -5px -5px -5px;"><a href="/wiki/Variable_star" title="Variable star">Variables</a> – <a href="/wiki/Variable_star#Extrinsic_variable_stars" title="Variable star">Extrinsic</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rotating_variable" class="mw-redirect" title="Rotating variable">Rotating</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alpha2_Canum_Venaticorum_star" class="mw-redirect" title="Alpha2 Canum Venaticorum star">Alpha2 CVn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rotating_ellipsoidal_variable" title="Rotating ellipsoidal variable">Ellipsoidal</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eclipsing_binary" class="mw-redirect" title="Eclipsing binary">Eclipsing binaries</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Algol_variable" title="Algol variable">Algol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beta_Lyrae" title="Beta Lyrae">Beta Lyrae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W_Ursae_Majoris" title="W Ursae Majoris">W Ursae Majoris</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div style="background-color: #FFFF99; border-top: 1px solid #FFC966; font-size: bigger; padding-left: 15px; margin: 12px -5px -5px -5px;"><a href="/wiki/Variable_star" title="Variable star">Variables</a> – <a href="/wiki/Variable_star#Intrinsic_variable_stars" title="Variable star">Intrinsic</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pulsating_variable" class="mw-redirect" title="Pulsating variable">Pulsating</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cepheid_variable" title="Cepheid variable">Cepheids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W_Virginis_variable" title="W Virginis variable">W Virginis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delta_Scuti_variable" title="Delta Scuti variable">Delta Scuti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RR_Lyrae_variable" title="RR Lyrae variable">RR Lyrae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mira_variable" title="Mira variable">Mira</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Semiregular_variable" class="mw-redirect" title="Semiregular variable">Semiregular</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irregular_variable" title="Irregular variable">Irregular</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beta_Cephei_variable" title="Beta Cephei variable">Beta Cephei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alpha_Cygni_variable" title="Alpha Cygni variable">Alpha Cygni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RV_Tauri_variable" title="RV Tauri variable">RV Tauri</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eruptive_variable" class="mw-redirect" title="Eruptive variable">Eruptive variables</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Flare_star" title="Flare star">Flare stars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T_Tauri_variable" class="mw-redirect" title="T Tauri variable">T Tauri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FU_Orionis_variable" class="mw-redirect" title="FU Orionis variable">FU Orionis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R_Coronae_Borealis_variable" title="R Coronae Borealis variable">RCr Borealis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luminous_blue_variable" title="Luminous blue variable">Luminous blue</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cataclysmic_variable" class="mw-redirect" title="Cataclysmic variable">Cataclysmic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Symbiotic_variable" class="mw-redirect" title="Symbiotic variable">Symbiotics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Micronova" title="Micronova">Micronova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dwarf_nova" title="Dwarf nova">Dwarf nova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nova" title="Nova">Nova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supernova" title="Supernova">Supernova</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Supernova#Classification" title="Supernova">Type:</a> <a href="/wiki/Type_Ia_supernova" title="Type Ia supernova">Ia</a>  <b>·</b>  <a href="/wiki/Type_Ib_and_Ic_supernovae" title="Type Ib and Ic supernovae">Ib/c</a>  <b>·</b>  <a href="/wiki/Type_II_supernova" title="Type II supernova">II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hypernova" title="Hypernova">Hypernova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gamma_ray_burst" class="mw-redirect" title="Gamma ray burst">GRBs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Failed_supernova" title="Failed supernova">Failed supernova</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div style="background-color: #FFFF99; border-top: 1px solid #FFC966; font-size: bigger; padding-left: 15px; margin: 12px -5px -5px -5px;">By <a href="/wiki/Spectral_type" class="mw-redirect" title="Spectral type">spectral types</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:O-type_stars" title="Category:O-type stars">O</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(blue)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:B-type_stars" title="Category:B-type stars">B</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(blue-white)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:A-type_stars" title="Category:A-type stars">A</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(white)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:F-type_stars" title="Category:F-type stars">F</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(yellow-white)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:G-type_stars" title="Category:G-type stars">G</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(yellow)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:K-type_stars" title="Category:K-type stars">K</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(orange)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:M-type_stars" title="Category:M-type stars">M</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(red)</span></li></ul> </td> <td> <div style="background-color: #D4E2FC; border-top: 1px solid #5F92F2; font-size: bigger; padding-left: 15px; margin: 12px -5px -5px -5px;">Systems</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Planetary_system" title="Planetary system">Planetary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Star_system" title="Star system">Star</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Star" title="Star">Stars in general</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Binary_star" title="Binary star">Binary</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(see below)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triple_star_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Triple star system">Triples</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Star_system#Higher_multiplicities" title="Star system">Higher order</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div style="background-color: #D4E2FC; border-top: 1px solid #5F92F2; font-size: bigger; padding-left: 15px; margin: 12px -5px -5px -5px;"><a href="/wiki/Binary_star" title="Binary star">Binary stars</a></div> <ul><li>By observation <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Optical_binary" class="mw-redirect" title="Optical binary">Optical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visual_binary" title="Visual binary">Visual</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astrometric_binary" class="mw-redirect" title="Astrometric binary">Astrometric</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spectroscopic_binary" class="mw-redirect" title="Spectroscopic binary">Spectroscopic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eclipsing_binary" class="mw-redirect" title="Eclipsing binary">Eclipsing</a></li></ul></li> <li>Close binaries <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Detached_binary" class="mw-redirect" title="Detached binary">Detached</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Semidetached_binary" class="mw-redirect" title="Semidetached binary">Semidetached</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contact_binary" title="Contact binary">Contact</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/X-ray_binary" title="X-ray binary">X-ray</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/X-ray_burster" title="X-ray burster">Burster</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div style="background-color: #D4E2FC; border-top: 1px solid #5F92F2; font-size: bigger; padding-left: 15px; margin: 12px -5px -5px -5px;">Stellar groupings</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Star_cluster" title="Star cluster">Star cluster</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stellar_association" title="Stellar association">Stellar association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Open_cluster" title="Open cluster">Open</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Globular_cluster" title="Globular cluster">Globular</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hypercompact_stellar_system" title="Hypercompact stellar system">Hypercompact</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constellation" title="Constellation">Constellation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asterism_(astronomy)" title="Asterism (astronomy)">Asterism</a></li></ul> <div style="background-color: #D4E2FC; border-top: 1px solid #5F92F2; font-size: bigger; padding-left: 15px; margin: 12px -5px -5px -5px;">Galaxies</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Galaxy" title="Galaxy">Galaxies in general</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galaxy_groups_and_clusters" title="Galaxy groups and clusters">Group and cluster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satellite_galaxy" title="Satellite galaxy">Satellite galaxy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supercluster" title="Supercluster">Supercluster</a></li> <li>By component <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Galactic_bulge" title="Galactic bulge">Bulge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spiral_arm" title="Spiral arm">Spiral arm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thin_disk" title="Thin disk">Thin disk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thick_disk" title="Thick disk">Thick disk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galactic_halo" title="Galactic halo">Halo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galactic_corona" title="Galactic corona">Corona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tidal_tail" title="Tidal tail">Tidal tail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stellar_stream" class="mw-redirect" title="Stellar stream">Stellar stream</a></li></ul></li> <li>By <a href="/wiki/Galaxy_morphology" class="mw-redirect" title="Galaxy morphology">morphology</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Spiral_galaxy" title="Spiral galaxy">Spiral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barred_spiral_galaxy" title="Barred spiral galaxy">Barred spiral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lenticular_galaxy" title="Lenticular galaxy">Lenticular</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elliptical_galaxy" title="Elliptical galaxy">Elliptical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ring_galaxy" title="Ring galaxy">Ring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irregular_galaxy" title="Irregular galaxy">Irregular</a></li></ul></li> <li>By size <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brightest_cluster_galaxy" title="Brightest cluster galaxy">Brightest cluster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giant_elliptical_galaxy" class="mw-redirect" title="Giant elliptical galaxy">Giant elliptical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dwarf_galaxy" title="Dwarf galaxy">Dwarf</a></li></ul></li> <li>By type <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Protogalaxy" title="Protogalaxy">Protogalaxy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Starburst_galaxy" title="Starburst galaxy">Starburst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dark_galaxy_(astronomy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dark galaxy (astronomy)">Dark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Active_galaxy" class="mw-redirect" title="Active galaxy">Active</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Radio_galaxy" title="Radio galaxy">Radio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seyfert_galaxy" title="Seyfert galaxy">Seyfert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quasar" title="Quasar">Quasar</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Microquasar" title="Microquasar">Microquasar</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blazar" title="Blazar">Blazar</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/OVV_quasar" title="OVV quasar">OVV</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_nugget" title="Red nugget">Red nugget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Void_galaxy" title="Void galaxy">Void galaxy</a></li></ul></li></ul> </td> <td> <div style="background-color: #FFCCE6; border-top: 1px solid #FF339C; font-size: bigger; padding-left: 15px; margin: 12px -5px -5px -5px;">Discs and media</div> <ul><li>Interplanetary <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Interplanetary_dust_cloud" title="Interplanetary dust cloud">Dust cloud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interplanetary_medium" title="Interplanetary medium">Medium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interplanetary_magnetic_field" title="Interplanetary magnetic field">Magnetic field</a></li></ul></li> <li>Stellar disc <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Accretion_disc" class="mw-redirect" title="Accretion disc">Accretion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circumstellar_disk" class="mw-redirect" title="Circumstellar disk">Circumstellar</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Protoplanetary_disk" title="Protoplanetary disk">Protoplanetary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Debris_disk" title="Debris disk">Debris</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>Interstellar <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Interstellar_cloud" title="Interstellar cloud">Cloud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interstellar_medium" title="Interstellar medium">Medium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odd_radio_circle" title="Odd radio circle">ORCs</a></li></ul></li> <li>Intergalactic <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Intergalactic_dust" title="Intergalactic dust">Dust</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intergalactic_medium" class="mw-redirect" title="Intergalactic medium">Medium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odd_radio_circle" title="Odd radio circle">ORCs</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div style="background-color: #FFCCE6; border-top: 1px solid #FF339C; font-size: bigger; padding-left: 15px; margin: 12px -5px -5px -5px;"><a href="/wiki/Nebula" title="Nebula">Nebulae</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Emission_nebula" title="Emission nebula">Emission</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Planetary_nebula" title="Planetary nebula">Planetary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supernova_remnant" title="Supernova remnant">Supernova remnant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plerion" class="mw-redirect" title="Plerion">Plerion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H_II_region" title="H II region">H II region</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reflection_nebula" title="Reflection nebula">Reflection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dark_nebula" title="Dark nebula">Dark nebulae</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Molecular_cloud" title="Molecular cloud">Molecular cloud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bok_globule" title="Bok globule">Bok globule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proplyd" title="Proplyd">Proplyd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H_I_region" title="H I region">H I region</a></li></ul> <div style="background-color: #FFCCE6; border-top: 1px solid #FF339C; font-size: bigger; padding-left: 15px; margin: 12px -5px -5px -5px;"><a href="/wiki/Cosmology" title="Cosmology">Cosmic</a> scale</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background" title="Cosmic microwave background">CMB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cosmic_string" title="Cosmic string">Cosmic string</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(hypothet.)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dark_matter" title="Dark matter">Dark matter</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Massive_compact_halo_object" title="Massive compact halo object">MACHO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weakly_interacting_massive_particles" class="mw-redirect" title="Weakly interacting massive particles">WIMP</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Domain_wall_(string_theory)" title="Domain wall (string theory)">Domain wall</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(hypothet.)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cosmic_dust" title="Cosmic dust">Dust</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Filament_(cosmology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Filament (cosmology)">Filament</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Large_Quasar_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Large Quasar Group">LQG</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Void_(astronomy)" title="Void (astronomy)">Void</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Supervoid" class="mw-redirect" title="Supervoid">Supervoid</a></li></ul></li></ul> </td> <td> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tnone center"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:269px;max-width:269px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:267px;max-width:267px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Observable_Universe_Logarithmic_Map_(vertical_layout_english_annotations)_for_wikipedia_635_x_2586.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Observable_Universe_Logarithmic_Map_%28vertical_layout_english_annotations%29_for_wikipedia_635_x_2586.png/265px-Observable_Universe_Logarithmic_Map_%28vertical_layout_english_annotations%29_for_wikipedia_635_x_2586.png" decoding="async" width="265" height="1079" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Observable_Universe_Logarithmic_Map_%28vertical_layout_english_annotations%29_for_wikipedia_635_x_2586.png/398px-Observable_Universe_Logarithmic_Map_%28vertical_layout_english_annotations%29_for_wikipedia_635_x_2586.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Observable_Universe_Logarithmic_Map_%28vertical_layout_english_annotations%29_for_wikipedia_635_x_2586.png/530px-Observable_Universe_Logarithmic_Map_%28vertical_layout_english_annotations%29_for_wikipedia_635_x_2586.png 2x" data-file-width="635" data-file-height="2586" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Logarithmic representation of the observable<br />universe with the notable astronomical objects<br />known today. From down to up the celestial<br />bodies are arranged according to their proximity<br />to the Earth.</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:267px;max-width:267px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Celestial_Zoo_infographic_wikimedia.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/The_Celestial_Zoo_infographic_wikimedia.png/265px-The_Celestial_Zoo_infographic_wikimedia.png" decoding="async" width="265" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/The_Celestial_Zoo_infographic_wikimedia.png/398px-The_Celestial_Zoo_infographic_wikimedia.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/The_Celestial_Zoo_infographic_wikimedia.png/530px-The_Celestial_Zoo_infographic_wikimedia.png 2x" data-file-width="4800" data-file-height="3200" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Infographic listing 210 notable astronomical<br />objects marked on a central logarithmic map of<br />the observable universe. A small view and some<br />distinguishing features for each astronomical<br />object are included.</div></div></div></div></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Astronomical_object&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1266661725">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output 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