Cosmology - Extragalactic

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

 

A

Absolute Zero

Absorption Spectrum

Acceleration

Accretion Disk

Active Galaxy

Angular Momentum

Angular Size

Anthropic Principle

Anthropocentrism

Anthropomorphism

Antimatter

Arrow of Time

Atom

 

B

Baryogenesis

Baryon

Baryon Number Conservation

Biased galaxy formation

Big Bang

Big Crunch

Birkhoff’s Theorem

Blackbody

Black Hole

BL Lac Objects

Blueshift

Brightness

Boson

Bottom-up Structure Formation

Brown Dwarf

 

C

Carrier Boson

Causality

CBR

Cepheid Variable

Chandrasekhar Limit

Chaotic Inflation

Closed Universe

Cold Dark Matter

Collapse of the Wavefunction

Collisionless Damping

Comoving Coordinates

Compton Wavelength

Conservation Laws

Consistency

Coordinates

Copenhagen Interpretation

Copernican Principle

Correlation Function

Cosmic Background Radiation

Cosmic Censorship

Cosmic Distance Ladder

Cosmic Rays

Cosmic Strings

Cosmic Time

Cosmological Constant

Cosmological Principle

Cosmological Redshift

Critical Density

Crucial Experiment

Curvature Constant

 

D

Dark Halo

Dark Matter

Data

Deceleration Parameter

Density

Density Parameter

Deuterium

de Sitter Model

Distance Ladder

Doppler Effect

Dust

Dynamical Method

 

E

Einstein-de Sitter Model

Electromagnetic Force

Electromagnetic Spectrum

Electron

Electron Degeneracy

Electroweak Interaction

Element

Ellipse

Elliptical Galaxy

Elsewhere

Emission Distance

Emission Spectrum

Energy

Entropy

Equal Density Epoch

Equilibrium

Equivalence Principle

Ergosphere

Escape Velocity

Euclidean Geometry

Event

Event Horizon

Exclusion Principle

Experiment

Explanatory Power

Extinction

 

F

False Vacuum

Falsifiable

Fermion

Field

Fission

Flat Geometry

Flat Universe

Flatness Problem

Flux

Force

Frame of Reference

Freefall

Frequency

Friedmann Equation

Friedmann Model

Fundamental Force

Fusion

Future

 

G

Galaxy Cluster

Galilean Relativity

Gauge Boson

General Relativity

Geocentric

Geodesic

Giant Molecular Cloud

Globular Cluster

Gluon

Grand Unified Theory

Grandfather Paradox

Gravitational Constant

Gravitational Lens

Gravitational Radiation

Gravitational Wave

Graviton

Gravity

 

H

Hadron

Hadron Epoch

Half-life

Harrison Zeldovich Spectrum

Hawking Radiation

Heat

Heat Death

Heliocentric

Higgs Boson

Homogeneity

Horizon

Hot Dark Matter

HR Diagram

Hubble Classification Scheme

Hubble Constant

Hubble Flow

Hubble Law

Hubble Length

Hubble Sphere

Hubble Time

Hydrostatic Equilibrium

Hyperbolic Geometry

Hypothesis

 

I

Ideal Gas

Inertia

Inertial Force

Inertial Motion

Inertial Observer

Inertial Reference Frame

Inflation

Inflaton

Initial Mass Function

Interference

Interferometer

Interstellar Medium

Invariance

Ion

Irregular Galaxy

Isotope

Isotropy

 

J

Jeans Mass

 

K

Kelvin Scale

Kepler’s Laws

Kerr Metric

Kinematical Method

Kinetic Energy

 

L

Law

Lemaitre Model

Length Contraction

Lepton

Lepton Epoch

Light Cone

Lightlike

Lightyear

Line Radiation

Local Group

Long Range Force

Lookback Time

Lorentz Contraction

Lorentz Transformation

Luminiferous Ether

Luminosity

Luminosity Distance

 

M

Mach’s Principle

MACHO

Magnetic Monopole

Main Sequence

Many Worlds Interpretation

Mass

Mass to LIght Ratio

Matter Dominated Era

Measurement Problem

Mechanics

Metals

Metric Equation

Microlensing

Milky Way

Minkowskian Spacetime

Model

Myth

 

N

Nebula

Neutrino

Neutron

Neutron Degeneracy

Neutron Star

Newton’s Laws

No Hair Theorem

Nova

Nuclear Force

Nucleon

Nucleosynthesis

Nucleosynthesis Epoch

Nucleus

Null

 

O

Occam’s Razor

Olbers’ Paradox

Omega

Open Universe

 

P

Pair Production

Parallax

Parsec

Particle Horizon

Past

Peculiar Velocity

Perfect Cosmological Principle

Periodic Table

Period Luminosity Relation

Photoelectric Effect

Photon

Photon Damping

Photon Sphere

Planck Epoch

Planck Length

Planck Time

Planck Constant

Plasma

Population I Stars

Population II Stars

Positron

Potential

Potential Energy

Predictive Power

Primordial Elements

Principle of Causality

Principle of Reciprocity

Proper Length

Proper Time

Proton

Pulsar

 

Q

Quantum

Quantum Cosmology

Quantum Fluctuations

Quantum Gravity

Quantum Mechanics

Quantum State

Quark

Quark Epoch

Quasar

Quasi-Stellar Object (QSO)

 

R

Radian

Radiation

Radiation Dominated Era

Radioactive Dating

Radioactivity

Radio Galaxy

Reception Distance

Recombination

Red Dwarf

Red Giant

Redshift

Relativity

Relativity Principle

Relevant

Relic Problem

Rest Energy

Rest Mass

Retrograde Motion

Riemannian Geometry

Robertson Walker Metric

 

S

Sachs Wolfe Effect

Scale Factor

Schroedinger Equation

Schwarzschild Radius

Scientific Method

Seyfert Galaxy

Silk Mass

Simplicity

Simultaneity

Singularity

Solar Mass, Luminosity

Spacelike

Spacetime

Spacetime Diagram

Spacetime Interval

Speed

Speed of Light

Spherical Geometry

Spiral Galaxy

Standard Candle

Standard Model

Star

Static Surface

Steady State Model

Strong Interaction

Structure Formation

Structure Problem

Sunyaev Zeldovich effect

Supercluster

Supernova

Superposition of States

Superstring Theory

Symmetry

Symmetry Breaking

 

T

Tachyon

Temperature

Testable

Theory

Thermal Equilibrium

Thermal Radiation

Thermodynamics

Thought Experiments

Tidal Force

Time Dilation

Timelike

Top-Down Structure Formation

True Vacuum

Tully Fisher Relation

Turnoff Mass

21cm Emission

 

U

Uncertainty Principle

Unified Epoch

Uniform Motion

Universe

 

V

Vacuum Energy Density

Vector

Velocity

Virgo Cluster

Virial Theorem

Virtual Particles

Void

 

W

Wave

Wavefunction

Wavefunction of the Universe

Wavelength

Weak Interaction

White Dwarf

Wien’s Law

WIMP

Work

Worldline

 

X

X-Rays

X-Ray Burster

 

Y

 

Z

Zero Age Main Sequence Stars