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voab terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| solar system | the sun and of the planets and other bodies that travel around it. |
| galaxy | a collection of stars dust and gas bound together by gravity. |
| planet | a relatively large spherical body that orbits a star. |
| light year | the distance that light travel in one years about 9.46 trillion kilometer. |
| star | a large celestial body that is compose of gas and that emits light the sun is a typical. |
| universe | space and all the matter and energy in it. |
| luminosity | the actaul brightness of an object such as a star . |
| apparent magnitude | the brightness of a star as seen from earth |
| absolute magnitude | a measure of how bright a star would be if it were seen from stanard distance. |