Astronomy Vocabulary
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| show | Alpha Centauri ; also known as Rigil Kent is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Centaurus, and the third brightest star in the night sky.
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| show | n. an object like a very large rock that goes around the sun like a planet.
Scientists are hoping an _______ will clue them in about early life on earth.
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| show | n. a person who is trained for traveling in spacecraft
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| show | An astronomical unit, or AU, is equal to the mean (average) distance from the Earth to the Sun,
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| show | n.the scientific study of the universe as a whole and of objects that exist naturally in space, such as the stars
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| black hole n. | show 🗑
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| celestial adj. | show 🗑
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| show | n. a body of rock and ice that travels around the sun and that, as it nears the sun, develops a long tail of small pieces that can be seen.
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| show | n. a group of stars in the sky that appear to form a pattern and that have a name
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| corona n. | show 🗑
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| cosmology n. | show 🗑
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| cosmos n. | show 🗑
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| show | n. the round hole at the top of a volcano, or a hole in the ground similar to this:
With a good telescope, you can see _______on the moon.
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| show | n. consists of particles in the atmosphere that come from various sources such as soil, dust lifted by weather (an aeolian process), volcanic eruptions, and pollution.
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| show | n. the situation when the sun disappears from view, either completely or partly, while the moon is moving between it and the Earth, or when the moon becomes darker while the shadow of the Earth moves over it:
a solar/lunar eclipse
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| show | n. an orbit (= path travelled around an object in space) in which a satellite always remains over the same place on the Earth's surface because it moves at the same speed as the Earth turns
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| show | n. › a star that has exploded, strongly increasing its brightness for a few months
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| show | n. a piece of rock or other matter from space that produces a bright light as it travels through the Earth's atmosphere
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| show | n. a cloud of gas or dust in space, appearing either bright or dark
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| show | n.coming from a different country, race, or group:
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