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| What is astronamy | the study of stars, meteors and other objects in space.
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| What is axis? | An imaginary line that tpasses through Earth's center and the North and South poles, about which Earth rotates.
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| Rotation? | A spinninng motion of a planet about its axis.
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| Revolution? | The movement of an object around another object.
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| Orbit? | The path of an object as it revolves around another object in space.
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| Tilt? |
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| Solstice? | Two days of the year on which the noon sun is directly overhead at either 23.5 degrees South or 23.5 degrees North.
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| Equinox? | Two days of the year on which niether hemisphere is toward or away from the sun.
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| Phase? | One of the different shapes of the moon as seen from Earth.
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| Eclipse? | The partial or total blocking of an object by another.
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| Gravity? | The attractive force between two objects; its magnitude depends on their masses and the distance between them.
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| Tide? | The rise and fall of the level of water in the ocean.
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| Satellite? | Any object that revolves around another in space.
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| Telescope? | A device built to study distant objects by making them appear closer.
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| Geocentric? | A description of the solar system in which all the planets revolve around Earth.
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| Heliocentric? | A description of the solar system in which all of the planets rovolve around the sun.
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| Inner Planet? | Any of the four planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, whose orbits are closer to the sun.
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| Outer planet? | Any of the four planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune whose orbits are outside of Mars.
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| Comet? | A ball of ice and dust whose orbit is a long narrow eclipse.
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| Asteroid? | Objects revolving around the sun that are too small and too numerous to be planets.
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| Meteoroid | A chunk of rock or dust in space.
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| Constellation? | A pattern of stars in the sky.
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| Galxay? | A giant structure that contains hundreds of billions of stars.
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| Universe? | All of space and everything in it.
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| Milky Way | The spiral galaxy that contains our solar system.
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