uranology

noun

the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole

• Syn: ↑astronomy

• Derivationally related forms: ↑uranologist, ↑astronomic (for: ↑astronomy), ↑astronomical (for: ↑astronomy)

• Members of this Topic:

↑active, ↑quiet, ↑direct, ↑retrograde, ↑superior, ↑inferior, ↑nebular, ↑nebulous, ↑phase, ↑absolute magnitude, ↑Hubble's law, ↑Hubble law, ↑Kepler's law, ↑Kepler's law of planetary motion, ↑Copernican system, ↑Ptolemaic system, ↑ascension, ↑egress, ↑emersion, ↑ingress, ↑immersion, ↑conjunction, ↑alignment, ↑inferior conjunction, ↑superior conjunction, ↑Oort cloud, ↑galaxy, ↑extragalactic nebula, ↑apoapsis, ↑point of apoapsis, ↑node, ↑equinoctial point, ↑equinox, ↑vernal equinox, ↑autumnal equinox, ↑barycenter, ↑culmination, ↑limb, ↑periapsis, ↑point of periapsis, ↑anomaly, ↑declination, ↑celestial latitude, ↑dec, ↑right ascension, ↑RA, ↑celestial longitude, ↑asterism, ↑canal, ↑coma, ↑comet, ↑meteoroid, ↑meteor, ↑nucleus, ↑outer planet, ↑planet, ↑major planet, ↑primary, ↑star, ↑astronomer, ↑uranologist, ↑stargazer, ↑variation, ↑red shift, ↑redshift, ↑accretion, ↑libration, ↑nucleosynthesis, ↑orbital plane, ↑hour angle, ↑HA, ↑inclination, ↑inclination of an orbit, ↑mean time, ↑mean solar time, ↑terrestrial time, ↑TT, ↑terrestrial dynamical time, ↑TDT, ↑ephemeris time, ↑epoch, ↑date of reference, ↑rise, ↑come up, ↑uprise, ↑ascend, ↑set, ↑go down, ↑go under, ↑stargaze

• Hypernyms: ↑physics, ↑natural philosophy

• Hyponyms:

↑astrodynamics, ↑astrometry, ↑radio astronomy, ↑celestial mechanics, ↑astrophysics, ↑selenology, ↑solar physics