Astronomy Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Astronomy Acronyms

• VPF — Vertical Processing Facility
• VRM — Venus Radar Mapper
• VS — SNGVooruzhennikh Sil SNG
• VTHL — Vertical Takeoff Horizontal Landing
• VTVL — Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing
• VVS — Voenno-Vosdushniye Sili
• WD — White Dwarf
• WFF — Wallops Flight Facility
• WFPC — Wide Field/Planetary Camera
• WFPCII — Replacement For WFPC
• WIMP — Weakly Interacting Massive Particle
• WINDII — Wind Imaging Interferometer
• WIYN — Wisconsin/Indiana/Yale/NOAO Telescope
• WMO — World Meterological Organisation
• WR — Western Range
• WSGT — White Sands Ground Terminal
• WSMR — White Sands Missile Range
• WTR — Western Test Range
• WUPPE — Wisconsin Ultraviolet PhotoPolarimter Experiment
• XMM — X-ray Multi Mirror
• XUV — Extreme Ultraviolet
• YSC — Yokohama Science Center
• YSO — Young Stellar Object
• ZCG — Zeolite Crystal Growth
• ZHR — Zenith Hourly Rate