Definitions
A force of attraction existing between any 2 masses.
What is gravity?
The abbreviation of astronomical unit.
What is au?
Located 93 million miles from Earth
What is the sun?
To see an image in greater detail.
What is resoultion?
The 4 planets closest to the sun.
What are terrestrial planets?
A natural or artificial body orbiting a planet or star
What is a satellite?
What is reflecting telescope?
A large object that orbits the sun.
What is a planet?
A large eruption of energy
What are solar flares?
It means Jupiter like.
What is Jovian planets?
Dots on the sun's surface
What are sunspots?
A wheeled craft used to explore the moon
What is a lunar rover?
The innermost section of the sun.
What is core?
The inner part of the Moon's shadow on Earth.
What is umbra?
The largest of the non-planetary bodies
What are minor planets?
The branch of science that deals with the physical universe beyond Earth's atmosphere.
What is Astronomy?
A telescope that bends light.
What is a refracting telescope?
What is a new moon?
Super-hot matter that is neither solid nor liquid nor gas
What is Plasma?
Theorized shell of objects made of lots of ice
What is the Oort cloud?
The gaseous layer surrounding Earth or another heavenly body.
What is atmosphere?
Device that can determine the wavelength of light that comes from an object
What is spectrosphere?
The term when a meteor hits the ground
What is a meteorite?
The colors of visible light.
What are Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, & Violet?
The spiral galaxy that we live in
What is the Milky Way Galaxy?