Astronomy
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| Astonomy | show 🗑
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| Geocentric | show 🗑
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| show | measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun
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| show | refers to the backwards motion of planets
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| show | an oval
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| show | average distance from earth to sun
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| show | the spinning of a body, such as earth, about its axis
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| Revolution | show 🗑
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| show | he slow, motion of the earth's axis of rotation, caused by the gravitational attraction of the sun and moon, and, to a smaller extent, of the planets
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| Perihelion | show 🗑
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| show | the point in the orbit of a planet or a comet at which it is farthest from the sun.
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| show | the point in the orbit of a heavenly body, especially the moon, or of an artificial satellite at which it is nearest to the earth.
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| show | the point in the orbit of a heavenly body, especially the moon, or of a man-made satellite at which it is farthest from the earth.
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| show | new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter and waning crescent.
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| Solar eclipse | show 🗑
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| show | the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun
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| show | the cup-shaped depression or cavity on the surface of the earth or other heavenly body marking the orifice of a volcano.
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| Terrestrial Planet | show 🗑
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| Jovian Planet | show 🗑
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| Nebula | show 🗑
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| Planetesimal | show 🗑
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| Asteroid | show 🗑
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| Comet | show 🗑
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| Coma | show 🗑
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| Meteoroid | show 🗑
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| Meteor | show 🗑
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| show | a mass of stone or metal that has reached the earth from outer space; a fallen meteoroid.
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| Electromagnetic Spectrum | show 🗑
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| show | he entire spectrum, considered as a continuum, of all kinds of electric, magnetic, and visible radiation, from gamma rays having a wavelength of 0.001 angstrom to long waves having a wavelength of more than 1 million km.
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| show | the science that deals with the use of the spectroscope and with spectrum analysis.
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| show | the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer.
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| Refracting Telescope | show 🗑
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| Reflecting Telescope | show 🗑
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| show | a system consisting of an antenna, either parabolic or dipolar, used to gather radio waves emitted by celestial sources and bring them to a receiver placed in the focus.
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| show | a telescope launched into orbit around the earth in 1990 to provide information about the universe in the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet ranges
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| show | any of several U.S. space vehicles consisting of a reusable manned orbiter that touches down on a landing strip after an orbital mission
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