6th gr galactic fact
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| a group of stars that forms a pattern and looks like a person, animal, or thing | constellation
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| a song that secretly gave slaves instructions to travel north for freedom | follow the drinking gourd
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| when Earth's shadow momentarily blocks out part or all of the Moon | lunar eclipse
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| stories | tales
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| the long necked fruit of a vine plant that could be hollowed out and used to scoop water out of a bucket | gourd
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| a tool with two lenses used to make objects that are far away look closer and larger | binoculars
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| a sturdy three legged support | tripod
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| the act of looking at the stars | stargazing
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| a round star map of two disks marked with dates and times | planisphere
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| a map that shows the locations of stars in the night sky | star map
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| a peson who observes objects in space | astronomer
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| a bright star over the North Pole and used to indicate North/ also called the North Star | polaris
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| a tool used by sailors to help find a ship's location at sea | astrolabe
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| astronomer who lived in Egypt a long time ago who believed Earth was the center of our Solar System | ptolemy
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| polish astronomer who believed the Sun was the center of our Solar System | copernicus
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| Italian astronomer who was the first person to use a telescope to look into space | galileo
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| a tool to look through that makes far away objects appear larger and closer | telescope
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| a special antenna used to pick up radio signals from far away objects in space | radio telescope
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| a special telescope used to collect Sun images and shine them into a special surface for viewing | solar telescope
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| a telescope put into orbit around Earth in 1990 that sends images of deep space back to us on Earth | hubble space telescope
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| turns around on axis; spins | rotates
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| to throw back light | reflect
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| an imaginary line that goes through a planet and that it rotates on | axis
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| the path that planets and moons travel as they travel around a sun | orbit
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| to give off its own light | shine
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| the outward appearance of a star tath is determined by its temperature | color
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| how bright a star is | magnitude
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| how hot or cold something is | temperature
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| the energy we get from the sun | sunshine
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| a tool that makes objects that are far away appear to be closer and larger | telescope
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| what light from stars appears to do because of Earth's moving atmosphere | twinkle
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| the main fuels for stars that are responsible for the energy we get from our sun | gas
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| a super hot ball of glowing gases in space | star
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| a group of stars, planets, and other objects in space that is held together by gravity | galaxy
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| the distance light can travel through space in one year | light year
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| after our Sun, the star closest to Earth | proxima centauri
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| someone who studies stars, planets, and other objects in space | astronomer
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| everthing that exists | universe
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| a group of stars that forms a pattern | constellation
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| stories handed down from generation to generation | legends
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| what stars are made of | hydrogen
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| how far away are stars | light years
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| what does Earth do to make stars look like they are moving in a circle | spin
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| how stars are grouped | color and brightness
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| used his knowledge about lunar eclipses to aid his crew while repairing a damaged ship from home | columbus
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| demonstrated the ease of cutting a five point star to George Washington and convinced him to change his original plan for the Americal flag | Betsy Ross
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| path souls traveled when they died | milky way
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| campfires of ancestors who were traveling to an afterlife | stars
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| thunderbolts tossed down by angry gods | shooting stars
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| caused by an invisible dragon to eat the Moon | lunar eclipse
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| explains how constellations came to be | myths and legends
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