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WikiProject Astronomy

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The purpose of this project is to guide the organization and style of Astronomy-related articles, organize Category:Astronomy and maintain Portal:Astronomy. The significance of an article to this project is shown by the WPAstronomy importance rating.

Subprojects of WikiProject Astronomy include WikiProject Astronomical objects, The Constellations Task Force and the Astronomy Image Review. Related WikiProjects include WikiProject Space, WikiProject Solar System, WikiProject Mars, WikiProject Moon and WikiProject Unmanned space missions.

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Recognized content

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Featured articles

Also see Category:FA-Class Astronomy articles

Solar systems and smaller: Asteroid belt Atmosphere of Jupiter Callisto (moon) Ceres (dwarf planet) Comet Comet Hale-Bopp Comet Hyakutake Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Definition of planet Dwarf planet Earth Enceladus (moon) Eris (dwarf planet) Europa (moon) Extrasolar planet Formation and evolution of the Solar System Ganymede (moon) Jupiter Io (moon) Kreutz Sungrazers Kuiper belt Mars Mercury (planet) Moon Neptune Oort cloud Planet Planetary habitability Pluto Rings of Jupiter Rings of Neptune Rings of Uranus Saturn Solar System Solar eclipse Titan (moon) Triton (moon) Uranus Venus Venus transit Volcanism on Io

Stellar objects and remnants: Barnard's Star Binary star Cat's Eye Nebula Crab Nebula Cygnus X-1 Globular cluster H II region Herbig-Haro object IK Pegasi Main sequence Nebular hypothesis Open cluster Planetary nebula Sirius Star Sun Supernova Tau Ceti Vega White dwarf Galaxies and larger: Big Bang Redshift Galaxy Hubble Deep Field Others: Astrophysics Data System Fermi paradox Hubble Space Telescope

Featured lists

Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

List of molecules in interstellar space

List of solar eclipses in the 21st century

List of space telescopes

Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their moons

Featured pictures

See Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Astronomy.

Featured topics

Solar System

Good articles

Also see Category:GA-Class Astronomy articles

Solar systems and smaller: 16 Cygni 16 Cygni Bb 2 Pallas 253 Mathilde 3 Juno 4 Vesta 47 Ursae Majoris b 47 Ursae Majoris c 55 Cancri b 55 Cancri c 55 Cancri d 55 Cancri e 90377 Sedna Amalthea (moon) Asteroid Atmosphere of Venus Gliese 876 b Gliese 876 c Gliese 876 d Great Comet of 1882 HD 209458 b HD 217107 b HD 217107 c Puck (moon) Upsilon Andromedae b Upsilon Andromedae c Upsilon Andromedae d Galaxies and larger: Andromeda Galaxy Cosmic inflation Cosmic microwave background radiation Hubble's law Milky Way

Stellar objects and remnants: 47 Ursae Majoris 55 Cancri 61 Cygni Algol Gliese 876 HD 40307 HD 217107 Mu Arae PSR B1620-26c Type II supernova Type Ia supernova Upsilon Andromedae Others: AMiBA Astronomy Deep Impact (space mission) Diffuse interstellar band Dyson sphere Galileo Galilei Gamma ray burst Granat Heliocentrism History of supernova observation Islamic astronomy Jodrell Bank Observatory Lovell Telescope Space Interferometry Mission Space weathering University of Illinois Observatory Warner and Swasey Observatory

Did you know-

• Starshade - 7 December 2006
• Low-ionization nuclear emission-line region - 6 January 2007
• Protoplanetary nebula - 11 January 2007
• Stingray Nebula - 21 January 2007
• Doppler spectroscopy 2 May 2007
• Type II supernova - 6 May 2007
• Stellar magnetic field - 6 June 2007
• Frosty Leo Nebula - 28 June 2007
• planetary nebula luminosity function - 18 September 2007
• Kuiper quadrangle - 11 December 2007
• 2007 WD5 - 27 December 2007
• OJ 287 - 17 January 2008
• Terzan 7 - 1 February 2008
• Draco Dwarf - 14 April 2008
• Dorado Group - 2 July 2008
• NGC 1553 - 9 July 2008
• Abell 39 - 10 September 2008
• 40-foot_telescope - 27 November 2008

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Templates

Also see Category:Astronomy infobox templates and Wikipedia:WikiProject Space/template list

Infoboxes

{{Infobox Astronomical survey}} {{Cluster}} {{Infobox Comet}} {{Infobox Constellation}} {{Dark nebula}} {{Diffuse nebula}} {{Extrasolar Planet}} {{Infobox Galaxy}} {{Galaxy cluster}} {{Globular cluster}} {{Irregular satellite}} {{Infobox Minor Planet}}

{{Infobox Observatory}} {{Infobox Planet}} {{Planetary nebula}} {{Protoplanetary nebula}} {{Quasar}} {{Infobox Space telescope}} {{Infobox Spacecraft}} {{Starbox begin}} {{Star formation}} {{Supernova}} {{Infobox Telescope}}

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Pages needing attention

Also see Astronomy pages needing attention and Astronomy articles needing expert attention

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 12 Dec 2008 - Scientific Equipment Optician (talk) was kept (see discussion).
• 14 Nov 2008 - Magnetospheric eternally collapsing object (talk) was kept (see discussion).

Categories for deletion

• 18 Nov 2008 - Category:Early scientific cosmologies (talk) was kept.

Good article nominations

• 17 Dec 2008 - Delta Muscae (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by SkarmCA; see discussion.
• 5 Dec 2008 - NGC 7424 (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Vegasbri; see discussion.
• 29 Nov 2008 - HD 40307 (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Starstriker7; see discussion.
• 19 Nov 2008 - Puck (moon) (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.
• 17 Nov 2008 - HD 40307 b (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.
• 17 Nov 2008 - HD 40307 c (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.
• 17 Nov 2008 - HD 40307 d (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.

Good article reassessment

• 11 Nov 2008 - Leo (constellation) (talk) is nominated for an individual reassessment; see discussion.

Featured article candidates

• 15 Dec 2008 - Main sequence (talk) is promoted to FA status; see discussion.

Featured article reviews

• 26 Dec 2008 - Isaac Newton (talk) is nominated by Headbomb; see discussion.
• 14 Dec 2008 - Hubble Deep Field (talk) is nominated by Ceranthor; see discussion.
• 8 Dec 2008 - Crab Nebula (talk) retains FA status.
• 20 Nov 2008 - Kreutz Sungrazers (talk) retains FA status; see discussion.

Peer review

• 28 Dec 2008 - Peer review opened for Vulcanoid asteroid (talk) by Reyk.

Requests for comments

• 4 Nov 2008 - RFC for Gliese 581 c (talk) has been closed.

Requested moves

• 24 Dec 2008 - List of stars with confirmed extrasolar planets (talk) was moved to List of extrasolar planets; see discussion.
• 23 Dec 2008 - QSO B1030+585 (talk) was moved to 3C 244.1; see discussion.
• 22 Dec 2008 - List of unconfirmed exoplanets (talk) was moved to List of unconfirmed extrasolar planets; see discussion.
• 17 Dec 2008 - QSO B0903+16 (talk) was moved to 3C 215; see discussion.
• 17 Dec 2008 - QSO B1319+428 (talk) was moved to 3C 285; see discussion.
• 17 Dec 2008 - QSO B0040+517 (talk) was moved to 3C 20; see discussion.
• 17 Dec 2008 - QSO B1100+773 (talk) was moved to 3C 249.1; see discussion.
• 17 Dec 2008 - QSO B1336+391 (talk) was moved to 3C 288; see discussion.
• 17 Dec 2008 - QSO B0605+480 (talk) was moved to 3C 153; see discussion.
• 12 Dec 2008 - Khw„rizm“ (talk) was moved to Al-Khw-rizm“; see discussion.

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Did you know

• 15 Dec 2008 - A fact from NGC 6118 (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 2 Dec 2008 - A fact from Nicolas Sarrabat (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 27 Nov 2008 - A fact from Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 27 Nov 2008 - A fact from 40-foot telescope (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 26 Nov 2008 - A fact from Abell 2142 (talk) appeared on the main page.

Requests

• Most wanted articles
• Requested articles
• Requested images
• Requested photographs of astronomical bodies

Stubs

• Astronomy stubs
• Astronomer stubs
• Comet stubs
• Galaxy stubs
• Minor planet stubs
• Observatory stubs
• Star stubs
• Star cluster stubs

Former featured articles

• Black hole demoted 19 November 2006

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Article ratings

See also: Template:Astronomy and Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomy/Cleanup listing

This table is automatically updated by Oleg Alexandrov's WP 1.0 bot. See Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Astronomy articles by quality log for the latest changes.

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