Academic Vocabulary (Astronomy) Review

The six astronauts on board will spend ten days in ______.

The planet must have been hit by an _______ or a comet.

The displacement is independent of the distance from the observer to the ______________ and a telescope has to be slightly tilted to compensate for the distortion.

The ____ was shining brilliantly when all of a sudden darkness descended over the place.

Studying the craters on the _____ allowed the scientists to get a better idea of how much water could be found on it.

The ______ orbits the Earth every 48 hours.

It's the first time __________ had identified an exploding magnetar in another galaxy.

The __________ Ursa Major contains the stars of the Big Dipper.

Even when the sky is dark, there is always a __________.

An _____ is a regular, repeating path that one object in space takes around another one.

The __________ disintegrated as it entered the Earth's atmosphere.

A _______ ago genetic codes were certainly unknown.

Planet ______ is the only planet out of the eight planets in the Solar system that hosts life.

Pluto is the farthest _______ in the solar system.

He earned his airline transport __________ in 2001.

NASA _______ rockets into space.

Astronomers have discovered a distant ______.

The ________ makes the craters on the surface of the moon incredibly clear.

We have the earth engulfed in _______ which in touching the surface of the earth touches the surface of water.

The _________ was welcomed with joyous , resounding acclaim