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2002 nova V838 Monocerotis.

A
Adaptive Optics and Laser Stars | Aldebaran | An Amazing A-Z of Space | Apollo 11, The First Landing | Arcturus - the Star | Aristotle | Asteroids | Asteroids and Meteorites - Mankind's Fate? | Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors - Clearing Up Confusion | Astronomical Distance Scales | Astronomical Units | Astronomy for Amateurs | H2G2 Astronomy Society | Atmosphere | Auroras - Polar Lights
B
Barnard's Star | Becoming a Telescope Nut | Betelgeuse | Big Bang | Binary Star Systems | Binoculars | Black Holes | Blue | Tycho Brahe
C
Calendar in Anno Domini (AD) | Celestial Navigation | Celestial Sphere | Christmas Star | Comets - Harbingers of Momentous Events | Constellations - Overview | Constellation entries | Crab Nebula (M1) | Curved Space and the Fate of the Universe
D
Dark Matter | Discovery of the Asteroid Belt | Discovery of Pulsars | Drake Equation | Dwarf Planets
E
Earth | Earthquakes | Eris | Evidence of Meteorite Impacts | Extinction Level Events | Extrasolar Planet Hunting | Extrasolar Planetary System 55 Cancri A
F
Williamina Fleming - Astronomy Pioneer | Forgotten Male Astronomers | Four Royal Stars | Full Moon names
G
Galaxies | Galaxy Zoo - Amateurs Analysing Galaxies | The History of the Galilean Moons | Galileo Galilei | Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) | Gnomon's Astronomy Picture Library: Page 1 | Giordano Bruno Crater
H
H2G2 Astronomy Society | Hanny's Voorwerp | Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram | Sir William Herschel - Astronomical Pioneer | History of Optical Science | History of the Transit of Venus | Jeremiah Horrocks - Father of British Astronomy | Horsehead Nebula | How to View a Total Eclipse | Hubble Space Telescope | Hydrogen
Jupiter's moon Io, orbiting every 42 hours at a distance of 420,000km.

I
Ice
J
Jupiter
L
Life and Times of the Sun | Light Pollution | Lives of Stars | Lunar Eclipses | Lunar Phases
M
Mars | Martian Moons - Phobos and Deimos | Mercury | Messier Objects | Meteors, Meteorites and Meteor Showers | Moon | Moonbows | Sir Patrick Moore - Astronomer, TV Presenter and Author
N
Near Earth Objects (NEOs) | Nebulae - an Overview | Neptune | Neutron Stars
O
Occurrences of 42 in Astronomy | Our Galactic Neighbourhood - the Local Bubble and the Local Fluff
P
Parsecs | Pleiades
R
Red | Roman Deities
Saturn with its mysterious rings.

S
Saturn | SETI and the 'WOW!' signal | SETI@Home Project | Singing Saturn's Hexagonal Mystery | Sirius | Solar System | Space, Stars and Galaxies | Spectral Classification System | Spirograph Nebula | Stars | Stellar Magnitudes | Summer Triangle | Sun
T
Telescopes | Temperature Scales | Total Solar Eclipses | Travelling to the Stars | The Tunguska Incident
U
Universal Red Shift | Uranus | Using the Sun to Orient Yourself
V
Venus | Voyager Missions
W
Water | Waters of Life | What's the Point of Astronomy? | Why the Earth has Seasons | Winter Triangle
Y
Yellow

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Referenced Entries:

Asteroids
Parsecs
Astronomical Units
Extinction Level Events
Earthquakes
Astronomy for Amateurs
Mars
Lunar Phases
Becoming a Telescope Nut
Near Earth Objects (NEOs)
The Discovery of the Asteroid Belt
Comets as Harbingers of Momentous Events
Evidence of Meteorite Impacts
Asteroids and Meteorites - Mankind's Fate?
How to View a Solar Eclipse
Binary Star Systems
Neptune
Mercury
Auroras - Polar Lights
The Moon
Jupiter
Lunar Eclipses
H2G2 Astronomy Society Home Page
The Life and Times of the Sun
Apollo 11, The First Landing
Messier Objects
Meteors, Meteorites and Meteor Showers
Earth
Betelgeuse - the Star
Astronomical Distance Scales
Dark Matter
Adaptive Optics and Laser Stars
The Celestial Sphere
The Hubble Space Telescope
An Amazing A-Z of Space
Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
The Big Bang
Blue - the Pigment of the Chemist's Imagination
The History of Optical Science
The Christmas Star
The Calendar in Anno Domini (AD)
Aristotle
Celestial Navigation
Our Galactic Neighbourhood - the Local Bubble and the Local Fluff
Arcturus - the Star
Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors - Clearing Up Confusion
Neutron Stars
The Discovery of Pulsars
The Giordano Bruno Crater
Galaxies
Hydrogen
Black Holes
Binoculars
Moonbows
Jeremiah Horrocks - Father of British Astronomy
Extrasolar Planet Hunting
Curved Space and the Fate of the Universe
Gnomon's Astronomy Picture Library: Page 1
Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs)
The History of the Transit of Venus
The Drake Equation
Sir William Herschel - Astronomical Pioneer
Sir Patrick Moore - Astronomer, TV Presenter and Author
Dwarf Planets
Tycho Brahe, Astronomer
Galaxy Zoo - Amateurs Analysing Galaxies
Forgotten Male Astronomers
The Full Moons - What's in a Name?
The Atmosphere
Constellation Overview
Astronomy v Astrology: Four Royal Stars and the Royal Birth Connection
Barnard's Star
Hanny's Voorwerp
The Horsehead Nebula
The Lives of Stars
Williamina Fleming - Astronomy Pioneer
The Crab Nebula (M1)
The Pleiades (M45)
Light Pollution
Nebulae - an Overview
Occurrences of 42 in Astronomy
The Martian Moons: Phobos and Deimos
Red Alert! It's the Colour Red
55 Cancri A – an Extrasolar Planetary System
Eris - the Largest Dwarf Planet
Aldebaran – 'the Eye of the Bull'
Ice
Major Roman Deities
The History of the Galilean Moons of Jupiter
Galileo Galilei – Father of Modern Science
The Solar System
Total Solar Eclipses
Water
The Tunguska Incident
Spectral Classification System
What's the Point of Astronomy?
The Sun
Saturn
Uranus
Venus
Telescopes
Stars
Stellar Magnitudes
The Voyager Missions
Travelling to the Stars
Why the Earth has Seasons
The Waters of Life
Universal Red Shift
The SETI@Home Project
Using the Sun to Orient Yourself
Temperature Scales
The Summer Triangle
SETI and the Wow! Signal
Singing Saturn's Hexagonal Mystery
The Winter Triangle
Yellow - the Sunshine Colour
The Spirograph Nebula
Sirius – The Dog-Star



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