astronomy
951 abbreviations
Abbreviation | Meaning | |
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IUE | (telescope) International Ultraviolet Explorer, an ultraviolet space telescope | |
IUEDAC | (organization) IUE satellite Data Analysis Center | |
IWCA | (meeting) International Workshop on Cometary Astronomy | |
JAC | (publication) Japan Astronomical Circular | |
JAC | (organization) Joint Astronomy Centre, the organization that operates the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope and the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope | |
JAPOA | (organization) Japan Amateur Photoelectric Observers Association | |
JAXA | (organization) Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency | |
JCMT | (telescope) James Clerk Maxwell Telescope | |
JD | (astrophysics terminology) Julian Date, an alternative time commonly used in astronomy | |
JET-X | (telescope) Joint European Telescope for X-ray astronomy | |
JGR | (publication) Journal of Geophysical Research | |
JILA | (organization) formerly Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics | |
JKT | (telescope) Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope | |
JPL | (organization) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a research center associated with NASA | |
JSGA | (telescope/organization) Japan SpaceGuard Association, a Japanese telescope used to track near-Earth asteroids and space junk | |
JWST | (telescope) James Webb Space Telescope, a planned space telescope that will supersede the Hubble Space Telescope | |
KAIT | (telescope) Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope | |
KAO | (telescope) Kuiper Airborne Observatory | |
KBO | (celestial object) Kuiper Belt Object | |
KCAO | (organization) Kumamoto Civil Astronomical Observatory | |
KIC | (catalog) Kepler Input Catalog, a catalog of stars with potential extrasolar planets to be observed by the Kepler Mission | |
KPNO | (organization) Kitt Peak National Observatory | |
L | (astrophysics terminology) Lagrange, Lagrange points | |
L | (catalog) Luyten, a catalog of proper motion measurements of stars | |
LAD-C | (instrumentation) Large Area Debris Collector, a canceled program that was to collect and catalog low orbital dust on the International Space Station | |
LAEFF | (organization) Laboratorio de Astrofisica Espacial y Fisica Fundamental, a Spanish astronomy research organization | |
LAL | (catalog) LALande, a historical catalog of stars | |
LAMOST | (telescope) Large sky Area Multi-Object fiber Spectroscopic Telescope | |
LANL | (organization) Los Alamos National Laboratory | |
LASCO | (instrumentation) Large Angle and Spectrometric COronagraph, an instrument on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory | |
Laser | (instrumentation) Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation | |
LBN | (catalog) Lynds Bright Nebula, a catalog of bright nebulae | |
LBNL | (organization) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | |
LBT | (telescope) Large Binocular Telescope | |
LBV | (celestial object) Luminous Blue Variable, a type of very bright variable star | |
LCDM | (astrophysics terminology) Lambda Cold Dark Matter, any model for structure formation in the universe that includes dark energy | |
LCOGT | network of autonomous robotic telescopes (2m, 1m and 40 cm) at 7 sites in both hemispheres | |
LCROSS | (spacecraft) Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite | |
LCRS | (observing program) Las Campanas Redshift Survey | |
LDN | (catalog) Lynds Dark Nebula, a catalog of dark nebulae | |
LDS | (catalog) Luyten Double Star | |
LEO | (astrophysics terminology) Low Earth Orbit | |
LEST | (telescope) Large Earth-based Solar Telescope | |
LETGS | (instrumentation) Low Energy Transmission Gratings Spectrometer, an instrument on the Chandra X-Ray Observatory | |
LF | (astrophysics terminology) Luminosity Function, the spatial density of objects such as star clusters and galaxies as a function of their luminosity | |
LFT | (catalog) Luyten Five-Tenths, a catalog of stars with proper motions exceeding 0.5" | |
LGA | (instrumentation) Low Gain Antenna | |
LGM | (celestial object) Little Green Men, a humorous name applied to pulsars soon after their discovery | |
LHEA | (organization) Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics | |
LHS | (catalog) Luyten Half-Second, a catalog of stars with proper motions exceeding 0.5" |