List of Great-Big Words- absorption lines
- accretion disk
- albedo
- alpha decay
- angular momentum
- Becklin-Neugebauer object
- beta decay
- blackbody radiation
- centripetal acceleration
- Chandrasekhar limit
- collisional de-excitation
- cosmic blackbody microwave radiation
- dark matter
- declination
- differential rotation
- flux
- Fraunhofer lines
- gnomon
- gravitational redshift
- H I regions
- H II regions
- Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
- hydrostatic equilibrium
- inverse beta decay
- isotropic
- Jeans mass
- luminosity
- Lyman series
- nebular model
- proton-proton chain
- radio interferometer
- radio recombination line emission
- secular parallax
- virial theorem
- Wien's law