Vocabulary
Galaxies
Stars
Constellations
Universe
100
a group of stars that have been identified and named
What is a constellation?
100
a galaxy that has no known shape
What is an irregular galaxy?
100
Polaris, or the North Star, is part of this constellation
What is the Little Dipper?
100
constellation named after a woman who bragged about her and her daughters beauty
What is Cassiopeia?
100
where our solar system is located in our galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy
What is at the end of one of the spiral arms?
200
millions of stars and dust that collect together
What is a galaxy?
200
a galaxy that has a known core and arms that rotate around the core
What is a spiral galaxy?
200
the stages a star goes through
What is a life cycle?
200
constellation representing a "little bear"
What is Ursa Minor?
200
we use ______________ to measure distances in space
What is a light year?
300
a unit of measurement used in space
What is a light-year?
300
a galaxy that is oval-like; not known to rotate
What is an elliptical galaxy?
300
the distance, in light years, to our closest star neighbor
What is 4.3 light years?
300
constellation that represents a king who fought with Jason from Roman mythology and helped to find the Golden Fleece
What is Cephus?
300
these are the same direction from Earth, not necessarily the same distance or brightness
What is a constellation?
400
everything that exists
What is the universe?
400
a galaxy in which the central bulge of stars is more like a rectangle than a circle
What is a barred spiral galaxy?
400
the first stage of stars, known as the nebula stage, is when gases and dust begin to collect; the stars produce no ______ on their own yet
What is light?
400
constellation which includes the smaller constellation of the "Big Dipper"
What is Ursa Major?
400
our galaxy is only a _________ part of the universe
What is small?
500
we belong to this galaxy
What is the Milky Way?
500
most galaxies are this type
What is spiral or barred spiral galaxies?
500
our closest star neighbor
What is Alpha Centauri?
500
group of people who used constellations to help guide them in their journeys
What is sailors?
500
we get a lot of pictures of the universe from the _______ telescope
What is Hubble?
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