An Alphabet Soup of Absurd Astronomy Acronyms
Astronomy loves acronyms. Some of them are evocative, charming, and memorable. Others are more laboured in their execution. This is an ode unusual acronyms, from the cleverly complex to the eye-rolling fail. Acronyms are prevalent when talking about astronomy and space science — in the past few months I’ve covered JPL, JAXA, OCO2, ISEE-3, SDO,…
