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Galaxies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Universe | all existing matter and space considered as a whole; the cosmos |
| Galaxy | Is a system of millions or billions of stars, made of as and dust, held together by gravitational attraction, Differrent sizes and shapes |
| Disk shaped galaxy | Spiral orr disk shaped, Has¨Arrms¨, Dense center We live in a spiral ggalaxy called the milky way |
| Spiral shaped galaxy | Spiral orr disk shaped, Has¨Arrms¨, Dense center We live in a spiral ggalaxy called the milky way |
| Irregular shaped galaxy | NO deined shape no clear bulge or disk, The leftovers off two coliding galaxies |
| Elliptical shaped galaxy | Oval-Shapped, Most aundant galaxies in the unierse, Most ae composed of older low-mass stas |
| Milky Way | a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye |
| Light Year | a unit of astronomical distance equivalent to the distance that light travels in one year, which is 9.4607 × 10^12 km (nearly 6 trillion miles). |
| Cluster | a group of similar things or people positioned or occurring closely together. |
| Andromeda Galaxy | the galaxy nearest to the Milky Way, usually seen as a large collection of stars arranged in a central core with spiral arms |