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Astronomy The study of space and all things in it.
Asteroid A small rock based object orbiting the sun.
Meteor Like an Asteroid but it enters the Earth's atmosphere.
Planet A celestial rock that elliptically moves around a star.
Star A sphere of plasma held together by it's own gravity. Most famous is the sun.
White Dwarf A dense star, usually the size of a planet. Created when a star dies.
Supernova What is created when a star explodes.
Black hole What sometimes becomes of a red giant when it dies.
Red Giant A larger, but cooler, star.
Meteorite A meteor that hits Earth's surface after entering the atmosphere
Blue Shift shorter wave lengths result in a blueshift
Redshift longer wave lengths result in a redshift
Electromagnetic Spectrum Radio wave, microwave, terahertz (or sub-millimeter) radiation, infrared, the visible region that is perceived as light, ultraviolet, X-rays and gamma rays.
Pulsar Rapidly rotating neutron star that emits occasional radio waves
Theory of Tectonic Plates Theory that the earth’s crust is split up into multiple pieces; called tectonic plates
Kepler's First Law All planets move around the sun
Kepler's Second Law A radius vector joining any planet to the Sun sweeps out equal areas in equal lengths of time
Kepler's Third Law The squares of the sidereal periods (of revolution) of the planets are directly proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the Sun
Divergent Boundaries Plates move away from each other
Convergent Boundaries Plates move towards each other
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