Astronomy: Part 1
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| Astronomy | The science that studies the universe.
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| Geocentric | Models/beleifs pertaining to the Earth as being the center of the universe, and that other planets orbit it.
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| Heliocentric | The models showing that the sun is the center of the universe, and that other planet orbit it.
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| Retrograde motion | The westward shift deriving from the Earth and another planet's own motion around the sun.
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| Ellipse | An oval shaped path taken by a planet during orbit.
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| Astronomical Unit (AU) | The average distance between Earth and the sun.
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| Rotation | The turning and spinning of a body on it's axis
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| Revolution | The motion of a body around some point in space.
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| Precession | The slight movement of Earth's axis.
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| Perihelion | The time in which the Earth is closest to the sun; usually around the 3rd of January.
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| Aphelion | The time in which the Earth is farthest from the sun; around the 4th of July.
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| Perigree | The point where the Earth is closest to the moon.
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| Apogee | The point where the Earth is farthest from the moon.
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| Phases of the moon | The result of the sunlight reflected on the moon combined with the moon's own movements.
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| Solar eclipse | When the moon moves in a line directly between the Earth and the sun.
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| Lunar eclipse | When the moon moves withen the Earth's own shadow.
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| Crater | Round depressions in the surface of the moon.
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| Terrestrial planet | Relativly small and rocky planets.
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| Jovian planet | Gas giants.
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| Nebula | A cloud of dust and gas in space.
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| Planetesimal | Small, irregualrly shaped bodies formed by the colliding/combining of matter in space.
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| Asteroid | Small rocky bodies that drift through space.
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| Comet | Peices of rocky and metallic materials held together by frozen gases.
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| Coma | The glowing head of a comet as the it gets closer to the sun and begind to vaporize.
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| Meteoroid | A small solid particle that drifts through space.
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| Meteor | Metoeoids that enter Earth's atmosphere, then burn up.
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| Meteorite | A meteoroid that reaches Earth's surface.
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| Electromagnetic spectrum | The arraingement of rays according to their wavelengths and frequinces.
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| Photon | Light that creates a stream of paticles.
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| Sceptroscopy | The study of the properties of light that depend on wavelength.
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| Doppler Effect | The percieved change in wavelength of a wave that is emitted from a source moving towards or away from an object.
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| Refracting Telescope | A telescope that uses a lens to bend or refrect light.
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| Reflecting Telescope | A telescope that uses a concave mirror that focuses the light infront of a mirror, rather than behind it, like a lens.
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| Radio Telescope | A telescope that detects and percieves radio waves using an antenna.
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| Hubble Telescope | The first space telescope, built by NASA.
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| Space Shuttle | A spacecraft propelled by rockets used to venture outside of the Earth's atmosphere.
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