Astronomy
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| show | great island of stars in space
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| show | galaxy in which our solar system resides
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| Local Group | show 🗑
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| show | galaxies with more than a few dozen members
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| super cluster | show 🗑
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| show | the sum total of all matter and energy
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| expanding | show 🗑
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| show | the beginning of expansion - 14 billion years ago
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| Shape of Orbits | show 🗑
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| show | Smaller objects orbit bigger objects. Planets, comets, asteroids and meteoroids orbit the sun. Moons orbits planets or dwarf planets.
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| speed of light | show 🗑
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| show | distance light travels in a year - 6 trillion miles
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| fact of light | show 🗑
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| show | a giant cloud in which stars and planets are forming
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| Closest Galaxy | show 🗑
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| show | 14 billion years
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| observable universe | show 🗑
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| show | 1) orbits around a star
2) round shape
3) clear neighborhood around orbit
4) Is not a moon
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| number of stars | show 🗑
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| Objects don't leave their orbit because | show 🗑
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| show | Earth's average orbital distance - 93 million miles
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| Objects don't crash into the object they orbit because | show 🗑
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| show | Is caused by having mass and is the tendency of an object to resist a change in motion.
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| show | Proxima Centauri
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| Regions in our solar system | show 🗑
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| As you move farther from an object it's size becomes but the actual size doesn't change. | show 🗑
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| show | Made of frozen gases, rock and cosmic dust. Located in the Kuiper belt and Oort Cloud. Range in size from 5km-100km
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| Asteroids | show 🗑
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| show | Bright streak of light in the atmosphere of a planet or moon caused from a meteoroid burning up due to air resistance. Range in size to less to 10m and made of rock, iron , nickel, clay, silicate and stone.
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| Meteorite | show 🗑
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| Meteoroid | show 🗑
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