List of French Astronomy Vocabulary (Including MP3 Audio)

L’astronomie

On this page you’ll find a list of French astronomy vocabulary words. We’ve also included the the names of planets in our solar system. These terms are easy to learn as they’re very similar to English. This is especially true for the names of the plants. The reason that astronomy terms in both English and French are derived from Latin and Greek.

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l’astronomie astronomy
l’espace (m) space
l’étoile (f) star
l’astre (m) star
l’astronome (m&f) astronomer
l’astronaute (m&f) astronaut
le vaisseau spatial spaceship
l’univers (m) universe
la galaxie galaxy
Mercure Mercury
Vénus Venus
le système solaire solar system
la constellation constellation
la planète planet
Terre Earth
Mars Mars
Jupiter Jupiter
Saturne Saturne
Uranus Uranus
Neptune Neptune
Pluton Pluto
la comète comet
le météore meteor
la météorite meteorite
l’astéroïde (m) asteroid
la nébuleuse nebula
la lune moon
le soleil sun
le télescope telescope

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