comets, meteors, asteroids
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| asteroid | small rocky objects that are found between the planets Mars and Jupiter
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| asteroid belt | where asteroids are located, between Mars and Jupiter
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| comets | loose collections of ice, dust, and small rocky particles that orbit the sun
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| meteroid | a chunk of rock or dust in space
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| meteors | a streak of light caused by the burning upon a meteroriod in the atmosphere
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| meteorite | a meteroid that has passed through the atmosphere and hit Earth's surface
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| constellations | imaginary patterns of stars
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| Light Year | the distance the light travels in a year
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| nebula | a large cloud of gas and dust in space and the first stage of a star
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| white dwarf | blue-white hot core of a star that is left behind after its outer layers have expanded and drifted out into space, also the fifth stage of a stars life
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| supernova | the explosions of a dying, super giant star
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| black hole | an object whose gravity is so strong that nothing can escape, also scientists are not sure if this actually exists.
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| binary stars | a star system with two stars
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| eclipsing binary | a binary star system in which one star sometimes blocks the light from the other
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| open clusters | a star cluster that has a loose, disorganized appearance and contains only a few thousands stars
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| globular clusters | a large, round, densely packed grouping of older stars
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| galaxy | a huge group of single stars, stars systems, stars clusters, dust, and gas bound together by gravity
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| Elliptical Galaxy | a galaxy shaped like a round or flattened ball, usually carrying old stars
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