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Galaxies

vocabulary for galaxies chap 22 lesson 4

TermDefinition
galaxy Huge collections of stars
universe made up of hundreds of billions of galaxies
spiral a type of galaxy with a bulging central disk of stars with spiral arms that radiate from it
elliptical a type of galaxy that has either a football or basketball shape
irregular a type of galaxy that does not have any clear shape, contains lots of gas and dust
Hubble's Law a theory that says objects moving away from each other have a relationship with their distance
milky way The galaxy that planet Earth is in
big bang theory the universe began from one point billions of years ago and has been expanding ever since
doppler shift the shift to a different wavelength on the electromagnetic spectrum
dark matter matter that emits no light at any wave lengeth, makes up 90% of the universe
local group The cluster of 30 galaxies that the Milky way is a part of
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