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  • A group of stars that form a picture or pattern that is recognized by people around the world
    constellation
  • List the four Gas Giant Planets
    Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, Neptune
  • A phenomenon that causes you to see different views of the same object
    parallax
  • Made of ice, carbon dioxide and dust. It is a long shining tail and travels around the Sun
    Comet
  • a meteoroid that enters Earth's Atmosphere and becomes a fireball
    Meteroite
  • A "small' rock or piece of debris orbiting in space
    Meteoroid
  • The study of the Universe
    Cosmology
  • Earth, Mars, Mercury, Venus
    Terrestrial or Rocky Planets
  • White band of light in the night sky made of more than 200 billion stars
    The Milky Way.
  • Number of planets in our solar system
    8
  • The study of stars
    astonomy
  • Theory that the Universe began with an enormous explosion of energy
    Big Bang
  • The Sun and the planets make up this system
    Solar System
  • Name two constellations
    Southern Cross, Big Dipper, Virgo, Orion,
  • Huge clouds of interstellar gas- the birth place of stars
    Nebulae
  • List the order of the planets
    Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
  • Reflects sunlight. Is the biggest and brightest object in the night sky when visible
    the Moon
  • They orbit the sun, reflect the light from the sun, do not twinkle and are large enough to clear their orbit of dust rock and other objects
    Planet
  • The distance traveled by light in one year
    a light year
  • Large rocky objects that orbit the Sun and are usually found in a belt between Mars and Jupiter
    Asteroid
  • 'Close' stars clumped together by gravitational forces over billions of years to form these.
    galaxy
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