Potential Titles: Astronomy [category]
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somethingdarkerI'm not dividing the science terms from the science fiction terms. I'm also throwing some quantum physics adjacent terms here, for now, because the don't fit elsewhere.
Apogee:
An apogee to the heart - Anthony Butts "Apogee"
Asteroid.
Astral.
Astrolabe:
The astrolabe of God's mysteries - Rumi "The Silence of Love" transl. by E.H. Whinfield
A bow about to launch the killer astrolabe - Dean Young "Acceptance Speech"
Astronaut.
Astronomy.
Aurora.
Betelgeuse:
Betelgeuse is a hell of a way to spend a night - Keith S. Wilson "there aren't enough idioms about the stars"
Big Bang.
Black Hole.
Blue Moon:
The blue moon wanes into another cold month - Keith Taylor "After the Holidays"
A blue moon for an instant caught - Cynthia Zarin "Blue Vase"
Blue Star:
Burgeoned by the gravity of blue stars and red dwarfs - R.B. Simon "The Galaxy that Swallowed Me from the Inside Out"
Comet.
Constellation.
Corona:
He who conjured the corona - Gregory Pardlo "Giornata 8"
See the corona of your face - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"
Cosmic.
Cosmos.
Crescent Moon:
And never see the crescent moon of Hope - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Advance!"
Who sleeps in the curl of a crescent moon - Lincoln Michel "Another Tuesday Afternoon"
From the cup of the crescent moon - Sara Teasdale "The Wine"
The lake of the crescent moon dries out - Zheng Min "If Curses aren't Accompanied by Deep Thought #9: The Forgotten Yesterday (A dirge of ancient culture)" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Dark Matter.
Dog Star:
The dog-star of treason grows dim - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Last Charge" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]
The green night-baying of the dog-star - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"
Dwarf [Star]:
Consume cold dwarfs and exploding nebulas - Mike Allen "Deluge"
Warp speed toward a dwarf star - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"
Earth.
Evening Star.
Event Horizon.
Falling Star.
Freefall:
A broken elevator trying to contain its freefall - Alise Alousi "Skip"
Full Moon.
Galaxy.
Gas Giant:
Can eat all the stars and gas giants - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
Gravity/Gravitation.
Gravity Well:
Climbing the beanstalk down the gravity well - Kendall Evans and David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox III"
Far from the deep yearning of gravity wells - Yoon Ha Lee "When Soft the Water Fell"
Great Bear:
Unwound them where the Great Bear swung - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"
Half Moon:
The prisoner of half moons - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"
Half moons ridged by the saw's tooth - Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"
Harvest Moon:
The harvest moon like some interloper - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"
Ghost songs and love to the harvest moon - Carl Sandburg "Theme in Yellow"
Sing with the owl to the harvest moon - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #39"
Hesper [evening star]:
Sought out lone Hesper's diamond ray - B. Simmons "Moonlight Memories [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
Horizon.
Hunter's Moon:
Under the pollution of a hunter's moon - Donika Kelly "The Three Birds of the Milky Way"
The hunter's moon illuminates it with her bewitching rays - D.M. Matheson "Petoobok"
Among the sunset hills till the Hunter's Moon arise - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"
Interstellar:
Cleaves the interstellar gloom - Robert Frost "Bond and Free"
Interstellar agonies of midnight - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"
Jupiter.
Leonids:
Meeting with great swarms of leonids - Harry Martinson "Aniara 3" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Light Year.
Lunar.
Mars.
Mercury.
Meteor.
Meteorite:
Falls like meteorite backward into space - D.H. Lawrence "Tommies in the Train"
Glistening in the continuous rain of meteorites - May Swenson "After the Flight of Ranger 17"
Midnight Sun:
Her night will kisses that midnight sun - W.E. Christian "Weaning Time"
Mistook him for the midnight sun - Oliver Herford "Henrik Ibsen"
The setting midnight sun - J. Patrick Lewis "The European City Song"
Milky Way.
Moon.
Moon and Sun.
Moonlet:
A room inside an icy moonlet - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"
Moonlight.
Morning Star.
Nadir:
Wayfared at the nadir of the sun - Thomas Hardy "Murmurs in the Gloom (Nocturne)"
From the nadir deep up to the zenith - John Keats "Hyperion"
The joyous zenith and the mute nadir wait - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Nebula.
Neptune.
New Moon.
North Star:
A dowry traded to the North Star - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"
Floating, floating, up to the North Star - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"
By North Star or candlelight - Gregory Pardlo "Copyright"
Mandatory nostalgia for the northern star - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Northern Lights:
Searching for the truth in caves and under the Northern Lights - Margaret Noodin "I Am Undefeated" transl. by the author
A playmate of the Northern Lights - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Laughing Blood"
Across the darkness flung the ribbons of the Northern Light - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"
Nova/Supernova.
Orbit.
Outer Space.
Parsec:
Somewhere parsecs deep behind your eyes - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Planet.
Those bodies in our solar system with names based in mythology and/or history may be found in one of these two documents: Potential Titles: Allusions - Historical/Mythological People/Beings/Groups [category] or Potential Titles: Allusions - Places/Items [category]. Few of the allusions relate to the moons, planets, etc., but some could be interpreted as doing so. When the names get their own posts, I'll put them here, too.
Pleiades.
Pluto/Plutonian.
Polaris:
An ever ready synonym for Polaris - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"
Pole-Star.
Protostar:
Which pressure causes metamorphoses, protostar pre-nucleosynthesis - Chet'la Sebree "An End"
Pulsar:
The thin pulse of long-dead pulsars - M.C. Childs "Snow Man"
Too weak for a black hole or a pulsar - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
Quarter Moon:
Strewn among quarter moons - Robert Hass "Poet's Work"
Quasar:
A magnified photograph of a distant quasar - Mary Jo Bang "The Actual Occurences"
Red Dwarf:
Burgeoned by the gravity of blue stars and red dwarfs - R.B. Simon "The Galaxy that Swallowed Me from the Inside Out"
Red Star:
Tumult of red stars exultantly - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Rupert Brooke"
Redshift:
A bridge redshifts toward oblivion - Ann K. Schwader "Spiral Scream"
Retrograde:
Your heart's in retrograde - Kate Light "There Comes the Strangest Moment"
Rocket.
Satellite.
Saturn.
Shooting Star.
Solar.
Solar Flare:
Memories scorch us like solar flares - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"
Solar System.
Solar Wind:
Warned how these solar winds would leave - Samiya Bashir "Second Law"
Solar wind strokes the ice-wall into light - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"
dust carried by solar wind - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
A solar wind too strong to ride - Ann K. Schwader "Why We Left"
Solstice
Southern Cross:
The Southern Cross shimmering like a signet of hope - Christopher Buckley "Desire"
Space.
Space-Time.
Star.
Starlet:
A thousand starlets glisten in the robe of night - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
Starlight.
Starred/Ill-Starred.
Starry.
Stellar.
Stellar Cluster:
Built their sky one story and one stellar cluster at a time - Mary Alexandra Agner "Adero's Wheel"
String Theory:
Teases string theory and quantum mechanics - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
Sun.
Sun and Moon.
Sunlight.
Sunspot:
Canopy the swollen sky with sunspots - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"
Supernova.
Telescope.
Universe.
Vacuum.
Venus.
White Dwarf:
The remains of a white dwarf will always rot - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
Wormhole.
Zenith.
Zero Gravity:
Experience the ultimate in zero gravity - Duane Ackerson "Infinite Zero"
From your zero gravity chair - Elizabeth Metzger "Control Feast"
Zero gravity democracy - Vickie Vertiz "Only we make beautiful things just to destroy them"
But zero gravity condenses nothing - Gretchen Tessmer "A Jar of Condensed Milk"
Zodiac.
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Apogee:
An apogee to the heart - Anthony Butts "Apogee"
Asteroid.
Astral.
Astrolabe:
The astrolabe of God's mysteries - Rumi "The Silence of Love" transl. by E.H. Whinfield
A bow about to launch the killer astrolabe - Dean Young "Acceptance Speech"
Astronaut.
Astronomy.
Aurora.
Betelgeuse:
Betelgeuse is a hell of a way to spend a night - Keith S. Wilson "there aren't enough idioms about the stars"
Big Bang.
Black Hole.
Blue Moon:
The blue moon wanes into another cold month - Keith Taylor "After the Holidays"
A blue moon for an instant caught - Cynthia Zarin "Blue Vase"
Blue Star:
Burgeoned by the gravity of blue stars and red dwarfs - R.B. Simon "The Galaxy that Swallowed Me from the Inside Out"
Comet.
Constellation.
Corona:
He who conjured the corona - Gregory Pardlo "Giornata 8"
See the corona of your face - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"
Cosmic.
Cosmos.
Crescent Moon:
And never see the crescent moon of Hope - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Advance!"
Who sleeps in the curl of a crescent moon - Lincoln Michel "Another Tuesday Afternoon"
From the cup of the crescent moon - Sara Teasdale "The Wine"
The lake of the crescent moon dries out - Zheng Min "If Curses aren't Accompanied by Deep Thought #9: The Forgotten Yesterday (A dirge of ancient culture)" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Dark Matter.
Dog Star:
The dog-star of treason grows dim - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Last Charge" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]
The green night-baying of the dog-star - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"
Dwarf [Star]:
Consume cold dwarfs and exploding nebulas - Mike Allen "Deluge"
Warp speed toward a dwarf star - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"
Earth.
Evening Star.
Event Horizon.
Falling Star.
Freefall:
A broken elevator trying to contain its freefall - Alise Alousi "Skip"
Full Moon.
Galaxy.
Gas Giant:
Can eat all the stars and gas giants - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
Gravity/Gravitation.
Gravity Well:
Climbing the beanstalk down the gravity well - Kendall Evans and David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox III"
Far from the deep yearning of gravity wells - Yoon Ha Lee "When Soft the Water Fell"
Great Bear:
Unwound them where the Great Bear swung - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"
Half Moon:
The prisoner of half moons - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"
Half moons ridged by the saw's tooth - Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"
Harvest Moon:
The harvest moon like some interloper - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"
Ghost songs and love to the harvest moon - Carl Sandburg "Theme in Yellow"
Sing with the owl to the harvest moon - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #39"
Hesper [evening star]:
Sought out lone Hesper's diamond ray - B. Simmons "Moonlight Memories [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
Horizon.
Hunter's Moon:
Under the pollution of a hunter's moon - Donika Kelly "The Three Birds of the Milky Way"
The hunter's moon illuminates it with her bewitching rays - D.M. Matheson "Petoobok"
Among the sunset hills till the Hunter's Moon arise - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"
Interstellar:
Cleaves the interstellar gloom - Robert Frost "Bond and Free"
Interstellar agonies of midnight - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"
Jupiter.
Leonids:
Meeting with great swarms of leonids - Harry Martinson "Aniara 3" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Light Year.
Lunar.
Mars.
Mercury.
Meteor.
Meteorite:
Falls like meteorite backward into space - D.H. Lawrence "Tommies in the Train"
Glistening in the continuous rain of meteorites - May Swenson "After the Flight of Ranger 17"
Midnight Sun:
Her night will kisses that midnight sun - W.E. Christian "Weaning Time"
Mistook him for the midnight sun - Oliver Herford "Henrik Ibsen"
The setting midnight sun - J. Patrick Lewis "The European City Song"
Milky Way.
Moon.
Moon and Sun.
Moonlet:
A room inside an icy moonlet - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"
Moonlight.
Morning Star.
Nadir:
Wayfared at the nadir of the sun - Thomas Hardy "Murmurs in the Gloom (Nocturne)"
From the nadir deep up to the zenith - John Keats "Hyperion"
The joyous zenith and the mute nadir wait - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Nebula.
Neptune.
New Moon.
North Star:
A dowry traded to the North Star - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"
Floating, floating, up to the North Star - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"
By North Star or candlelight - Gregory Pardlo "Copyright"
Mandatory nostalgia for the northern star - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Northern Lights:
Searching for the truth in caves and under the Northern Lights - Margaret Noodin "I Am Undefeated" transl. by the author
A playmate of the Northern Lights - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Laughing Blood"
Across the darkness flung the ribbons of the Northern Light - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"
Nova/Supernova.
Orbit.
Outer Space.
Parsec:
Somewhere parsecs deep behind your eyes - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Planet.
Those bodies in our solar system with names based in mythology and/or history may be found in one of these two documents: Potential Titles: Allusions - Historical/Mythological People/Beings/Groups [category] or Potential Titles: Allusions - Places/Items [category]. Few of the allusions relate to the moons, planets, etc., but some could be interpreted as doing so. When the names get their own posts, I'll put them here, too.
Pleiades.
Pluto/Plutonian.
Polaris:
An ever ready synonym for Polaris - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"
Pole-Star.
Protostar:
Which pressure causes metamorphoses, protostar pre-nucleosynthesis - Chet'la Sebree "An End"
Pulsar:
The thin pulse of long-dead pulsars - M.C. Childs "Snow Man"
Too weak for a black hole or a pulsar - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
Quarter Moon:
Strewn among quarter moons - Robert Hass "Poet's Work"
Quasar:
A magnified photograph of a distant quasar - Mary Jo Bang "The Actual Occurences"
Red Dwarf:
Burgeoned by the gravity of blue stars and red dwarfs - R.B. Simon "The Galaxy that Swallowed Me from the Inside Out"
Red Star:
Tumult of red stars exultantly - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Rupert Brooke"
Redshift:
A bridge redshifts toward oblivion - Ann K. Schwader "Spiral Scream"
Retrograde:
Your heart's in retrograde - Kate Light "There Comes the Strangest Moment"
Rocket.
Satellite.
Saturn.
Shooting Star.
Solar.
Solar Flare:
Memories scorch us like solar flares - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"
Solar System.
Solar Wind:
Warned how these solar winds would leave - Samiya Bashir "Second Law"
Solar wind strokes the ice-wall into light - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"
dust carried by solar wind - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
A solar wind too strong to ride - Ann K. Schwader "Why We Left"
Solstice
Southern Cross:
The Southern Cross shimmering like a signet of hope - Christopher Buckley "Desire"
Space.
Space-Time.
Star.
Starlet:
A thousand starlets glisten in the robe of night - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
Starlight.
Starred/Ill-Starred.
Starry.
Stellar.
Stellar Cluster:
Built their sky one story and one stellar cluster at a time - Mary Alexandra Agner "Adero's Wheel"
String Theory:
Teases string theory and quantum mechanics - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
Sun.
Sun and Moon.
Sunlight.
Sunspot:
Canopy the swollen sky with sunspots - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"
Supernova.
Telescope.
Universe.
Vacuum.
Venus.
White Dwarf:
The remains of a white dwarf will always rot - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
Wormhole.
Zenith.
Zero Gravity:
Experience the ultimate in zero gravity - Duane Ackerson "Infinite Zero"
From your zero gravity chair - Elizabeth Metzger "Control Feast"
Zero gravity democracy - Vickie Vertiz "Only we make beautiful things just to destroy them"
But zero gravity condenses nothing - Gretchen Tessmer "A Jar of Condensed Milk"
Zodiac.
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
