Miscellaneous #1
The belief that stars actually influence the lives of people and determine their destiny is part of the practice of __________.
Astrology
Our own galaxy, the __________, has about 300 billion stars.
Milky Way
__________ deals with the scientific study of the stars and heavenly objects.
Astronomy
__________ are irregularly shaped pieces of rock, metal, and dust.
Asteroids
A __________ breaks down the light given off by a star into all its colors.
Spectroscope
A __________ is a rocky object in space that is smaller than an asteroid.
Meteoroid
A _____ is an icy chunk of frozen gases, water, and dust that orbits around the sun over and over again.
Comet
An __________ is a group of several hundred to a few thousand stars with no particular arrangement.
Open star cluster
When the friction caused by a meteroid´s rapid movement through Earth´s atmosphere causes it to light up, it is then called a __________(shooting star).
Meteor
A __________ is a huge star system that contains million, or even billions, of stars and covers many light years of space.
Galaxy
Most meteors burn up in Earth´s atmosphere, but a few impact Earth´s surface and are called __________.
Meteorites