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unit 2
vocab terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| solar system | the sun and all of the planets and other bodies travel around it |
| galaxy | a collection of stars,dust,and gas bound together by gravity |
| planet | a relativley large spherical l body that orbit a star |
| light year | the distance that light travels in one year about 9.46 trillion kilometers |
| star | a large celestial body that is composed of gas and that emits light |
| universe | space and all the matter and energy in it |
| lumionisty | the actual brightness of an object such as a star |
| apparent magnitude | the brightness of the stars as seem from earth |
| absolute magnitude | any method of measuring of how bright star would be if it where seen from a standard distance |