astronomy
951 abbreviations
Abbreviation | Meaning | |
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MGS | (spacecraft) Mars Global Surveyor | |
MHD | (astrophysics terminology) MagnetoHydroDynamic | |
MICO | (software) Multi-year Interactive Computer Almanac, astronomy almanac software created by the United States Naval Observatory | |
MIPS | (instrumentation) Multi-band Imaging Photometer, an instrument on the Spitzer Space Telescope | |
MJD | (astrophysics terminology) Modified Julian Date, the Julian date minus 2400000.5 | |
MLO | (organization) | |
MMO | (spacecraft) Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter, JAXA space probe to Mercury | |
MMR | (astrophysics terminology) Mean-Motion Resonance | |
MMT | (telescope) Multiple Mirror Telescope | |
MNRAS | (publication) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | |
MO | (spacecraft) Mars Observer | |
MOA | (observing program) Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics, a survey searching for gravitational lenses | |
MOC | (instrumentation) Mars Observer Camera, an instrument on the Mars Observer | |
MOID | (astrophysics terminology) Minimum Orbit Intersection Distance, the minimum distance between two objects' orbital paths | |
MOLA | (instrumentation) Mars Observer Laser Altimeter, an instrument on the Mars Observer used to study Mars's topology | |
MOND | (astrophysics terminology) Modified Newtonian Dynamics | |
MONS | (telescope) Measuring Oscillations in Nearby Stars, a Danish space telescope that was proposed and designed but not built [3] | |
MOST | (telescope) Microvariability and Oscillations of STars, a space telescope designed to detect oscillations in the atmospheres of stars and extrasolar planetss in orbit around other stars | |
MOST | (telescope) Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope, an Australian radio telescope | |
MOTIF | (telescope) Maui Optical Tracking and Identification Facility | |
MOXE | (instrumentation) Monitoring X-ray Experiment, an X-ray all-sky monitor designed for the Spectrum-X-Gamma satellite | |
MPC | (publication) Minor Planet Circulars (also called Minor Planets and Comets) | |
MPCS | (publication) Minor Planet circulars Supplement | |
MPEC | (publication) Minor Planet Electronic Circular | |
MPF | (spacecraft) Mars PathFinder | |
MPL | (spacecraft) Mars Polar Lander | |
MPO | (space craft) Mercury Planetary Orbiter, ESA space craft to Mercury | |
MPP | (instrumentation) Multi-Pinned-Phase, CCD technology that reduces dark current noise | |
MPS | (observing project) Microlensing Planet Search, a program designed that detect extrasolar planets using a gravitational lensing technique | |
MRO | (spacecraft) Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter | |
MSP | (celestial object) MilliSecond Pulsar | |
MSSS | (organization) Maui Space Surveillance Site | |
MSSSO | (organization) Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories | |
MSX | (telescope) Midcourse Space EXperiment, an infrared space telescope | |
MUNICS | (observing program) MUnich Near-Infrared Cluster Survey | |
MUSES | (spacecraft) MU Space Engineering Spacecraft, a Japanese science-related spacecraft launched in a Mu rocket | |
MUSTANG | (instrumentation) Multiplexed SQUID TES Array at Ninety GHz, A bolometer camera on the Green Bank Telescope. | |
MW | (celestial object) Milky Way | |
MWD | (celestial object) Magnetic White Dwarf | |
MXRB | (celestial object) Massive X-Ray Binary, an X-ray-luminous binary system consisting of a compact star and a very massive star | |
MYSO | (celestial object) Massive Young Stellar Object | |
N | (celestial object) Nova | |
NACA | (organization) National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, the older name for NASA | |
NAMN | (organization) North American Meteor Network | |
NAOJ | (organization) National Astronomical Observatory of Japan | |
NAS | (organization) Norsk Astronomisk Selskap, the Norwegian name for the Norwegian Astronomical Society | |
NASA | (organization) National Aeronautics and Space Administration | |
NASDA | (organization) NAtional Space Development Agency | |
NBS | (organization) National Bureau of Standards, an older name for the National Institute of Standards and Technology | |
NCT | (telescope) Nuclear Compton Telescope - a balloon-borne soft gamma-ray (0.2-15 MeV) telescope. |