popular  noun  noun (generic)  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  intransitive verb  astronomy 

• backward movement, reverse movement, going backwards, retrogression, going in the wrong direction, going against (e.g. the times), running counter to
• retrograde motion

popular  abbreviation  astronomy  noun  noun (generic) 

• Venus (planet)
• thick silk thread
• refined sugar
• white rice jelly
• variety of sweet potato

popular  astronomy  noun  noun (generic) 

• Chinese "Hairy Head" constellation (one of the 28 mansions), Pleiades, Seven Sisters

popular  astronomy  noun  noun (generic) 

• star

popular  astronomy  noun  noun (generic) 

• Mercury (planet)

popular  astronomy  noun  noun (generic)  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  intransitive verb 

• culmination, southing, crossing the meridian

popular  astronomy  noun  noun (generic) 

• lunar eclipse

popular  noun  noun (generic)  astronomy 

• race, tribe, ethnic group
• species, genus, family
• stellar population (i.e. population I, II and III)

popular  noun  noun (generic)  astronomy 

• black spot, dark spot
• sunspot

popular  geography  noun  noun (generic)  astronomy 

• meridian
• meridian