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Space vocab words
Space vocab words for test on Wednesday May 9th
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| planet | one of the heavenly bodies except comets and meteors that move around the sun in nearly a circular motion |
| moon | a satellite of any planet |
| comet | a bright heavenly body with a star like center and often with a cloudy icy tail of light which always points away from the sun |
| asteroid | anyone of the thousands of planetoid |
| black hole | a hypothetical hole in outer space into which energy and stars and other heavenly matter collapse and disappear |
| satellite | a heavenly body that revolves around a planet |
| orbit | the path of any artificial body about another celestial body or the path of a manmade staellite |
| gravity | a natural force |
| galaxy | a system of aggregate of stars, cosmic dust, and gas, held together by gravitation |
| meteor | a mass of stone or metal that enters the Earth's atmosphere from outer space with enormous spreads |
| Sunspots | one of the dark spots that appear at regular intervals in certain zones on the surface of the sun |
| Star | any heavenly body that is not a planet, moon, comet, meteor or nebula stars shine by their own reflective light |
| Solar Winds | a continous stream of charged particles, mainly protons and electrons ejected by the sun and extending in all directions and electrons interplanetary |
| Nebula | a mass of dust particles and gasses or a cloud like cluster of stars which occurs in interstellar space, very far away from our sun and its planets |
| Light Year | the distance that light travels in one year at a speed of 186,282 miles per second; about 6 trillion miles. It is used to measure astrinomical distances |
| Ultra Violet Light | of or having to do with the invisible part of the spectrum whose rays have wave lengths shorter than those of the violet end of the visible spectrum and longer than those of the x-rays. Wave lengths are from C.5 to C.400 nanometers |
| Atmosphere | the mass of gases that surrounds, or may surround any heavenly body |
| Ozone | a form of oxygen produced by electricity and present in the air, especially after a thunderstorm. It has a sharp, pungent, odor like that of weak chlorine. It is a pale blue |
| Universe | The whole existing thing every there is cosmos especially |
| Gamma Rays | Penetrating, electromagnetic radiation of very high frequency, given off spontaneoususly by radium and other radioactive substances |
| Milky Way | A broadband of faint light that stretches across the sky at night. It is made up of countless stars and luminous clouds of gas |
| Astronomer | a person who studies the stars, planets, moons, etc. |
| Astronaut | a person trained to make rocket flights to outer space and pilot space shuttles |
| Constellation | This is an easily recognizable pattern of stars and planets. In the northern hemisphere, they're named for gods & godesses. In the southern hemisphere, they are named for animals & birds |
| Quasar | an object in space which emits a powerful blue light and radio waves. May be the oldest objects in space |
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