Ritc - Schw
- Ritchey Chretien telescopes
 - robotic telescopes
 - Roche limit
 - Roche lobe
 - rocket borne instruments
 - Rosseland opacity
 - rotating bodies
 - rotating shells
 - rotating stars
 - rotation
 - RR lyrae stars
 - RR telescopii stars
 - RRA stars
 - RRAB stars
 - RRB stars
 - RRC stars
 - RS canum venaticorum stars
 - runaway stars
 - RV tauri stars