List of Astronomy Acronyms - B

B

  • B – (catalog) Barnard catalog
  • BAA – (organization) British Astronomical Association
  • BAAS – (publication) Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
  • BAC – (catalog) Bordeaux Astrographic Catalog
  • BAO – (organization) Beijing Astronomical Observatory
  • BASIS – (observing program) Burst and All Sky Imaging Survey
  • BAT – (instrumentation) Burst Alert Telescope, an instrument on SWIFT
  • BATC – (observing program) Beijing-Arizona-Taiwan-Connecticut, the name of a multi-wavelength sky survey
  • BATSE – (instrument) Burst and Transient Source Experiment, an instrument on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory
  • BATTeRS – (telescope) Bisei Asteroid Tracking Telescope for Rapid Survey
  • BB – (astrophysics terminology) Black Body
  • BBXRT – (telescope) Broad Band X-Ray Telescope
  • BCD – (celestial object) Blue Compact Dwarf
  • BCD – (software) Basic Calibrated Data, data produced after basic processing
  • BCEP – (celestial object) Beta CEPhei, a class of pulsating variable stars for which Beta Cephei is the archetypal object
    • also BCE
  • BCG – (celestial object) Blue Compact Galaxy, another name for a blue compact dwarf, also Bright Central Galaxy
  • BCG – (celestial object) Brightest Cluster Galaxy, the brightest galaxy in a cluster of galaxies
  • BCVS – (catalog) Bibliographic Catalogue of Variable Stars
  • BD – (catalog) Bonner Durchmusterung
  • BD – (celestial object) Brown Dwarf
  • BEN – (catalog) Jack Bennett catalog, a catalog of deep-sky objects for amateur astronomers
  • BEL – (celestial object) broad emission line clouds in Active galactic nucleus
  • BF – (astrophysics terminology) Broadening Function
  • BH – (celestial object) Black Hole
  • BHB – (celestial object) Blue Horizontal Branch, a type of luminous star
  • BHC – (celestial object) Black Hole Candidate
  • BHXRT – (celestial object) Black Hole X-Ray Transient
    • also BHXT
  • BIMA – (organization & telescope) Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association, and also B-M-I Array, microwave telescope it operated
  • BIS – (organization) British Interplanetary Society
  • BITP – (organization) – Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, a Ukrainian research institute
  • BLLAC – (celestial object) BL LACertae, a class of active galaxies for which BL Lacertae is the archetypal object
    • also BLL
  • BLAST – (telescope) – Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope
  • BNSC – (organization) British National Space Centre, the older name for UKSA
  • BOAO – (observatory) Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory, in Korea
  • BPM – (catalog) Bruce Proper Motion
  • BSG – (celestial object) Blue Super Giant
  • BSS – (celestial object) Blue Straggler Star
    • also BS
  • BSS – (observing program) Bigelow Sky Survey
  • BY – (celestial object) BY Draconis, a class of rotating variable stars for which BY Draconis is the archetypal object

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