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Lesson 4.1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What is the universe made up of? | Matter, energy, and space |
| What is the largest object in space? | IC 1101, which is a galaxy |
| Observable universe | Everythings exsistance weve been able to confirm or observe |
| How old is the universe | 13.8 billion years old |
| What do galaxies contaian? | Stars, Gas, and dust (Held together by gravity) |
| Spiral galaxies | Long twisting arms (where stars are formed), star factories, |
| What type of galaxy is the milky way? | A spiral galaxy |
| Elliptical galaxy | Very old, do not create new stars, looks like one giant star |
| Irregular galaxy | Galaxies that do not fit into spiral, or elliptical galaxies. |
| The local group | It is a group of 30 galaxies, which include the milky way |
| How much galaxies and stars are there in the universe | about 100 billion galaxies, and 10 billion trillion stars |
| what are stars | big balls of gas held by gravity |
| What are star clusters | groups of stars that were formed at the same time and place |
| what is the sun? | big hot ball of hydrogen gas (15 million degrees celcius) |
| what is a planet | A body that orbits the sun, and has a round shape |
| what is a moon | a large body that orbits a planet |
| terestrial planets | made of rocky material, dont have rings, small, few moons (mercury, venus, earth, mars) |
| jovian planets | multipule moons, ring systems, big in size, no soldis surface (jupiter, starurn, uranus, neptune) |
| Gas giants | helium and hydrogen (jupiter & saturn) |
| Ice giants | ( uranus and neptune) - rock, ice, water, methane, ammonia |
| light years | The distance a light beam travels in one year |
| Interplanetary distances | the distances between planets (measured in km or AU) |
| AU / astronomical units | the distance between earth and the sun |
| Interstellar distances | the distance between stars in a galaxy (measured in light years) |
| Intergalactic distances | the distance between galaxies (measured in light years) |