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Galaxy Vocab

About Galaxies

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What is the distance light travels in one year? Light year.
What travels at about 186,000 miles/sec or 671 million miles/hour? Light.
How long does it take light from the Sun to travel to the Earth? 8.4 minutes.
The Proxima Centauri is the closest star to what? The Sun.
How many light years is the Proxima Centauri from the Sun? 4.24 light years away.
It takes 5.5 hours for the Sun's light to reach where? Pluto.
What is a system of millions and billions of stars, made of gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction? A Galaxy.
Galaxies can be different what? Shapes and sizes.
What galaxy is spiral or disk shaped, has "arms", and has a dense center? Spiral/Disk Galaxy.
What galaxy do we like in, what is it called? Spiral Galaxy, Milky Way.
How far is the Sun located out of one of the arms? 2/3 of the way.
What galaxy is oval-shaped, are the most abundant galaxies in the universe, and are mostly composed of older, low-mass stars? Elliptical Galaxy.
What galaxy has no defined shape, no clear bulge or disk, and is the leftovers of two colliding galaxies? Irregular Galaxy.
What is a group of something all close together? A cluster.
What happens when atoms, molecules, and ions are put together with forces that bind atoms together? It creates a cluster.
What was originally the Andromeda Nebula, is a spiral galaxy, and is about 2.5 million Light Years away from Earth? The Andromeda Galaxy.
What is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way? Andromeda Galaxy
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