Vulcan | English | Description | Category |
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aikum-ek'duv | lunar eclipse | the earth interrupts light shining on the moon | astronomy |
aikum-solek | lunar regolith | unconsolidated residual or transported material that overlies the solid rock on moon | astronomy |
aikum-tal | selenology | the astronomical study of the moon | astronomy |
be-sfek | perigee | the point nearest the Earth's center in the orbit of the moon or a satellite; the point in any orbit nearest to the body being orbited | astronomy |
besaya t'yellar | stellar cartography | a room that can display three-dimensional, panoramic maps of space | astronomy |
dah-yel | binary star | a double star whose members have a revolution round their common center of gravity | astronomy |
dukal-yel-travek | globular cluster | a system of stars, generally smaller in size than a galaxy, that is more or less globular in conformation | astronomy |
duv | umbra | a dark area, especially the blackest part of a shadow from which all light is cut off; the completely dark portion of the shadow cast by the earth, moon, or other body during an eclipse | astronomy |
ek'duv | eclipse | eclipse (noun); like a solar or lunar eclipse | astronomy |
ek'kal t'Daison | Dyson sphere | an artificial hollow sphere of matter around a star designed to capture nearly all of the star's radiated energy for industrial use | astronomy |
ek'kal-shi-kethellar | spherical coordinates | system of coordinates for locating a point in space by the length of its radius vector and the angles this vector makes with two perpendicular polar planes | astronomy |
ek'tra | planet | a nonluminous celestial body larger than an asteroid or comet, illuminated by light from a star, such as the sun, around which it revolves | astronomy |
fito'ov-mathra | accretion disk | a structure formed by matter falling into a gravitational source such as a galaxy, black hole, or protostar | astronomy |
ha'gel-haulan-tavat | albedo | the ratio of reflected to incident light | astronomy |
igen-gellar | aurora | an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force | astronomy |
igen-kov | meteorite | a stony or metallic mass of matter that has fallen to the earth's surface from outer space | astronomy |
ir-zehl-kes | azimuth | the azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian | astronomy |
irak-sfek | apogee | apoapsis in the planet's orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is at the greatest distance from the planet | astronomy |
irak-zan-vel | telescope | any of various devices, such as a radio telescope, used to detect and observe distant objects by their emission, transmission, reflection, or other interaction with invisible radiation | astronomy |
ka-wak-gad t'kastik-wak | spring equinox | is the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere when the sun appears to cross the celestial equator, heading northward | astronomy |
ka-wak-gad t'kastik-wak | vernal equinox | the point at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator, the sun having a northerly motion | astronomy |
ka-wak-gad t'urozh-wak | autumnal equinox | the point at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator, the sun having a southerly motion; the moment at which the sun passes through the autumnal equinox, about September 23, marking the beginning of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere | astronomy |
kahs'khior'i | shooting star | a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and evaporates or melts | astronomy |
kal | node | either of two diametrically opposite points at which the orbit of a planet intersects the ecliptic | astronomy |
khrash-yel | supernova | a rare celestial phenomenon involving the explosion of most of the material in a star, resulting in an extremely bright, short-lived object that emits vast amounts of energy | astronomy |
kwul-razh | impact crater | a circular or almost circular area having a depressed floor, almost always containing a central mountain and usually completely enclosed by walls that are often higher than those of a walled plain; ring formation | astronomy |
Lanka-Garukh | 61 Cygni | the Vulcan name for a star in the constellation Cygnus (the Swan) [source: Enterprise: The Romulan War: Beneath the Raptor's Wing] | astronomy |
makh-vihk | tektite | any of numerous generally small, rounded, dark brown to green glassy objects that are composed of silicate glass and are thought to have been formed by the impact of a meteorite with the earth's surface | astronomy |
malat-aikum | natural satellite | a celestial body that orbits a planet; a moon; natural satellite | astronomy |
minshara | planet type | a planet suitable for humanoid life (Class M planet) | astronomy |
mu'gel-stukh-wan | dark nebula | the dust of interstellar medium seems to be concentrated in large clouds which appears as star-poor regions | astronomy |
mu'gel-tukh | dark matter | a hypothetical form of matter that is believed to make up 90 percent of the matter in the universe; it is invisible (does not absorb or emit light) and does not collide with atomic particles but exerts gravitational force | astronomy |
numen-vunai | quantum field | a distribution of energy that is constantly creating and destroying particles and transmitting the forces of nature | astronomy |
pa-yut | orbit | the path of a celestial body or an artificial satellite as it revolves around another body (noun) | astronomy |
pash-yel | black hole | black star (literal meaning); area of space-time with a gravitational field so intense that its escape velocity is equal to or exceeds the speed of light | astronomy |
pash-yel-krup | event horizon | area between where light can escape the gravitational pull of a black hole and where it can't | astronomy |
pau | corona | the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse | astronomy |
pi'duv | penumbra | a partial shadow, as in an eclipse, between regions of complete shadow and complete illumination | astronomy |
pi'ek'tra | asteroid | any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter) | astronomy |
raf-kuv-threshan | circular velocity | the velocity at which a body must move in order to maintain an orbit at the outer edge of the earth's atmosphere | astronomy |
retuka | dimension | one of three cartesian coordinates that determine a position in space (physics) | astronomy |
sa'awek-vel | field star | stars distributed at random in space and not belonging to any particular star cluster | astronomy |
shi'dan-abru | zenith | the point on the celestial sphere that is directly above the observer | astronomy |
shi'igen-glantaya | observatory | a building, place, or institution designed and equipped for making observations of astronomical, meteorological, or other natural phenomena | astronomy |
shi'yel-gluvekh | planetarium | a place where you can project images of celestial bodies and other astronomical phenomena onto the inner surface of a hemispherical dome | astronomy |
si-yel-halekik | extragalactic | situated outside of the galaxy | astronomy |
spol-yel | pulsar | a degenerate neutron star; small and extremely dense; rotates very fast and emits regular pulses of polarized radiation as radio waves or x-rays | astronomy |
stron-threshan | escape velocity | velocity necessary to leave Earth's gravitational pull and establish an orbit | astronomy |
stukh | space; outer space | the expanse in which the solar system, stars, and galaxies exist; the universe; the region of this expanse beyond Earth's atmosphere | astronomy |
stukh-grazhiv | cosmic dust | clouds of particles or gases occurring throughout interstellar space | astronomy |
stukh-ha'zehllar | cosmic rays | a radiation of high penetrating power that originates in outer space and consists partly of high-energy atomic nuclei | astronomy |
stukh-ralash | galactic noise | radio-frequency radiation originating outside the solar system | astronomy |
stukh-tal | astrophysics | the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of stellar phenomena | astronomy |
stukh-wak-mev | wormhole | a distortion of space-time in a region of the universe that would link one location or time with another, through a path that is shorter in distance or duration than would otherwise be expected | astronomy |
stukh-wak-razh | black hole | an area of space-time with a gravitational field so intense that its escape velocity is equal to or exceeds the speed of light | astronomy |
stukh-wan | nebula | an immense cloud of gas (mainly hydrogen) and dust in interstellar space | astronomy |
stukhtra | universe | all matter and energy, including the earth, the galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space, regarded as a whole | astronomy |
stukhtra | cosmos | everything that exists anywhere | astronomy |
sutor-aikum | satellite | a country under the domination or influence of another; something, as a branch office or an off-campus facility of a university, that depends on, accompanies, or serves something else | astronomy |
thorsh-yel | nova | a star that suddenly becomes much brighter and then gradually returns to its original brightness over a period of weeks to years | astronomy |
thorsha-wesh-kov | bolide | an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding) | astronomy |
torv-aikum | artificial satellite | man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon | astronomy |
tu'a-yel-travek | open cluster | a comparatively young, irregularly shaped group of stars, often numbering up to several hundred, and held together by mutual gravitation; usually found along the central plane of the Milky Way and other galaxies | astronomy |
um-sfek | vertex | the highest point reached in the apparent motion of a celestial body | astronomy |
vath-ek'tra-tal | planetology | the branch of astronomy that deals with the planets of the solar system | astronomy |
vi-seshau-zehllar | absorption lines | the dark lines in the solar spectrum due to absorption by the solar and the earth's atmosphere | astronomy |
wesh-kov | meteor | the bright trail or streak that appears in the sky when a meteoroid is heated to incandescence by friction with the earth's atmosphere | astronomy |
wesh-kov-tevan | meteor shower | a large number of meteors that appear together and seem to come from the same area in the sky | astronomy |
yel | star | a self-luminous celestial body consisting of a mass of gas held together by its own gravity in which the energy generated by nuclear reactions in the interior is balanced by the outflow of energy to the surface (VLI) | astronomy |
yel | sun | a star that is the center of a planetary system; general name for the heavenly body (VLI) | astronomy |
yel-be-sfek | perihelion | the point in the orbit of a planet or comet where it is nearest to the sun | astronomy |
yel-halek | galaxy | vast system of celestial objects, typically consisting of between 10^6 and 10^12 stars, plus interstellar gas and dust | astronomy |
yel-halek- | galactic | of or relating to a galaxy, especially the Milky Way; enormous in size (adj.) | astronomy |
yel-halek-dan | galactic rotation | the revolving of a galaxy round its central nucleus even as it continues its proper motion | astronomy |
yel-halek-kuv | galactic circle | the great circle of the heavens, to which the course of the galaxy most nearly conforms | astronomy |
yel-halek-pa'ashtra | galactic plane | the plane that contains the disk of the Milky Way | astronomy |
yel-halekik | galactic | of or relating to a galaxy, especially the Milky Way; enormous in size (adj.) | astronomy |
yel-halekik shi-kethel | galactic coordinate(s) | a system of coordinates based on the mean plane of the Galaxy, which is inclined about 63° to the celestial equator | astronomy |
yel-irak-sfek | aphelion | apoapsis in solar orbit; the point in the orbit of a planet or comet that is at the greatest distance from the sun | astronomy |
yel-nel-dath | constellation | a familiar pattern of stars | astronomy |
yel-pi'maat | solar system | the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field | astronomy |
yel-poshaya | solar flare | a sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface; associated with sunspots and radio interference | astronomy |
yel-sposhan | solar prominence | large eruptions of luminous hydrogen gas that rise thousands of kilometers above the chromosphere | astronomy |
yel-tal | astronomy | the scientific study of matter in outer space, especially the positions, dimensions, distribution, etc. of celestial bodies and phenomena | astronomy |
yel-ulidar | sunspot | any of the relatively cool dark spots appearing periodically in groups on the surface of the sun that are associated with strong magnetic fields | astronomy |
yunai t'mokey-seshan | planetary magnetic field | a magnetic dipole, with the magnetic field S pole near the planet's geographic north pole and the other magnetic field N pole near the planet's geographic south pole | astronomy |
zehl-yel | comet | a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit | astronomy |
zehl-yel-tam | coma | (astronomy) the luminous cloud of particles surrounding the frozen nucleus of a comet; forms as the comet approaches the sun and is warmed | astronomy |
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