Galaxies
Vocab
Out In Space
Stars
Big Words
100
name of our galaxy
What is the Milky Way galaxy?
100
everything in space
What is the universe?
100
orbits another space object
What is the moon ?
100
a cool, old star
What is red giant?
100
a meteor that is large enough to survive/fall through earth's atmosphere
What is a a meteorite?
200
pinwheel most galaxies are this kind
What is spiral galaxy?
200
orbits a star
What a planet?
200
known as a "shooting star" and has bits of rock that get caught in Earth's gravatitional pull
What are meteors?
200
two reasons stars don't burn
What are no oxygen, too hot!
200
clouds made up of particles and hydrogen atoms
What is a nebula?
300
has no definate shape (rarest kind)
What is a irregular galaxy?
300
empty space
What is a vacuum?
300
an icy celestial object that vaporize as they approach the sun
What is a comet?
300
protostar
What is a baby star?
300
mini planets that orbit in a belt between mars and jupiter
What is an asteroid?
400
squashed ball, usually older stars
What is a elliptical galaxy?
400
force that keeps the universe organized
What is gravity?
400
a large space object that makes and radiates a huge amount of heat and light
What is a star?
400
a star starts as hydrogen and goes to this
What is helium?
400
large organized group of stars
What is a galaxy?
500
astronomer who studied galaxies
Who is Edwin Hubble?
500
when a red giant explodes in its old age
What is called a super nova?
500
trash in space left by a space craft falling apart
What is space junk?
500
the process where 1 element is turned into another to make heat and light
What is nuclear fusion?
500
brightness of a star
What is the magnitude?
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