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Galaxies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Astronomy | The study of God's creation beyond our atmosphere |
| universe | the sum of God's physical creation |
| galaxy | a star system containing from millions to billions of stars |
| milky way | our galaxy. diameter: 100,000 lightyears. contains over 100 billion stars, in local group cluster |
| solar system | our sun and the planets that revolve around it |
| cluster | a group of galaxies |
| Andromeda | the largest galaxy in the milky way, in local group cluster |
| Large & Small Magellanic Clouds | Two galaxies closest to ours. |
| supercluster | a large grouping of galaxies |
| Spiral galaxies | galaxies with a spiral shape |
| barred spirals | galaxies with bar-shaped arms bending into a curve |
| nebula | spiral galaxies containing massive amounts of gas and space dust |
| elliptical galaxies | galaxies resembling eggs or footballs |
| irregular galaxies | galaxies composed stars clumped together with no definite shape |