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| 100% | ALDEBARAN | Across Lightyear Distances, Earthbound Beams Are Received At Night |
Tony McCoy O'Grady. (Taurus, the Bull, is a zodiacal constellation that contains the orange-hued star Aldebaran, the 13th brightest star in the sky and 45 times larger than the Sun.) |
| 89% | BESSEL AND NEPTUNE | Bessel's Equations Struggled to Show Existence, Leverrier & Adams' Numbercrunching Deduced New Edge-lying Planet's Tenor. Undisputed, Now - Elementary! |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | BLAST OFF | Burn Loads And Surge Through Our Fragile Firmament |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 91% | CHALLENGER | Christa Had A Life; Lost in Explosion. National Grief Eternally Remains. |
Roger Williams Transport History |
| 86% | COMETS | Coming Occasionally, Making Eveningtime Trails (in) Sky |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY | Exalted University Researchers Orgainsed Project Emulating American (NASA) Space Programme - Albeit Cannot Expend Asmuch Gelt Each New Calendar Year |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | FOCUS | For Orbits, Centre's Usually Star |
Angela Brett |
| 75% | GALAXY | Gigantic Area. Long Armed X-axis & Y-axis |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | IA | Its Astronomical |
Rico Leffanta (Ia is Hawaiian for Milky Way) |
| 95% | LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS | Life Is Feasible Exterior to Our Norms, Over The Heavens Expanse Reside "Peoples" Lacking Anthropoidal Natures, Eating Toxic Substances |
Bones McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology |
| 100% | METAL | Most Elements That Aren't Light |
Angela Brett (astronomers call any elements heavier than helium 'metals'.) Science:Chemistry |
| 100% | METEORS | Moving Endlessly They Encircle Our Rotating Sphere |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | MISQUOTE | Most Idiots Seldom Question Understanding Of The Eclipse |
Rico Leffanta Communication |
| 100% | MOON | Monthly Orbiter Of Nighttime |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | MOON (2) | Makes One Odify Nighttime |
Roger Williams |
| 100% | MOON (3) | Most Often Observed Nightly. |
Roger Williams |
| 80% | NASA | Newbies: "Acronym [for] Space Agency" |
Jeff Anonymous Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | NASA (2) | Never Attended Starfleet Academy |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 67% | NASA (3) | Never Attained Speed-of-light Acceleration |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | NASA (4) | Not Another Shuttle Accident! |
Angela Brett, after the space shuttle Columbia broke up in re-entry. People & Relationships:Disaster |
| 100% | NORTHERN LIGHT | Nightly Observance, Rays Tints Have Each Ring Naturally Living In Great Hues. Tremendous |
Jan Morgan |
| 100% | ORION | Often Resplendent In Our Nightsky |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | PATHETIC | People Against The Hypothesis Earth Travels In Circles |
Rico Leffanta Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | PERSEIDS | Particles Entering Remote Stratosphere Emit Illuminations During Summertime. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | PLASMA | Pyrolysis Looms As Spacecraft Meets Atmosphere |
Angela Brett, who hopes that the term 'pyrolysis' can apply to the separation of atoms into ions and electrons in plasma. Science:Physics |
| 100% | POLE STAR | People Oriented Looking Ever Skyward. The Astrolabe Resulted |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | PULSARS | Probably Unpopulated Locations, Some Are Remotely Studied. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 86% | QUASAR | Quite Unusually Active Sources At Radio-wavelengths |
Philip Edwards |
| 100% | QUASARS | Queer Unusual And Strange Areas - Radiation Sources |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | ROCKET | Roaring Off, Carrying Keen Extra Terrestrials |
Patricia Rix Science:Physics |
| 100% | ROCKETS | Reach Orbit Converting Kinetic Energy, Transporting Satellites |
Philip Edwards |
| 100% | SATELLITE | Sat A 'Tall Electric Lamp' = Light! It Truly Enlightened! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Saw 'SATELLITE' thought 'Sat A Light.' Words & Wordplay |
| 100% | SETI | Spread Ears Toward Infinity |
Angela Brett (SETI usually stands for the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | SETI (2) | Some Expect Tiny Irishmen |
Angela Brett, referring to 'little green men' (see SETI) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | SETI (3) | Spacemen Everywhere Tune In |
Angela Brett (see SETI) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | SETI (4) | Sentience: Earthbound? The Investigation |
Angela Brett (see SETI) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | SETI (5) | Seek E. T's Integers |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (see SETI) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | SETI AT HOME | Supercomputers Everywhere Try Isolating Alien Technology's Hallmark - Obfuscated Mathematical Equations? |
Angela Brett Computers |
| 100% | SETI AT HOME (2) | Sift, Eventually, Total 'Interference' Among The Heavens Over Mother Earth |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SHUTTLE | Spacemen Have Used This To Leave Earth |
Angela Brett Transport |
| 100% | SIDEREAL | Starlight Inspires Desires Enchanting Romantics, Especially After Libations |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | SOL | Source Of Light |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SOUND IN SPACE | Sign Of Uneducated Nitwits... Doesn't It Need Some Perturbed Atoms, Compressing & Expanding? |
Angela Brett, when Jeff gave sound in space as the reason for calling STAR WARS FOUR Un Realistic. |
| 100% | SPACE | Scientists Puzzled About Curvature, Etc. |
Angela Brett |
| 89% | SPACE AGE | Shuttle Pilotted by Aging Chap - Everybody Admires Great Explorers. |
Angela Brett Time |
| 100% | STAR | Something That Astronomers Research |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | STARS | Shining Things Are Radiation Sources |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | STARS (2) | Still Twinkling After Repeated Seasons |
Roger Williams |
| 75% | SUN | Source of Uncountable Neutrons |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 100% | SUN (2) | Star, Usefully Nearby |
Philip Edwards |
| 100% | SUN (3) | Solar Unit Nearby. |
Roger Williams |
| 100% | SUNRISE | Sun's Up Now, Resulting In Sleep Ending. |
Roger Williams Time Sports & Recreation:Relaxation |
| 100% | SUNSET | Sun Unseen Now Signifying Evening Time. |
Roger Williams Time |
| 100% | SUNSET (2) | Sun's Unseen Now, Since Earth's Turning |
TMcCO'G Time |
| 90% | SUPERNOVA | Star Ultimately Perishes Emitting Radiation. Notifying (us) Of Violent Activity |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| 83% | TITAN | Tentatively Interior's Terrestrial-ish, Atmosphere's Nitrogen. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | TIDE | Then It Does Ebb. |
Roger Williams Time Places:Waterways |
| 100% | TELESCOPE | This Enhances Longsightedness - Even See Cosmic Objects Parsecs Extrasolar. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | UMBRA | Usually Makes Blacker Region Appear. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | VACUUM (2) | Visit A Cold, Uncaring Universe - Matterless! |
Angela Brett (it must be uncaring, because in a vacuum, nothing matters.) |