Science word list
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| meteoroid | a space rock or dust from a comet or broken-up asteroid
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| meteor shower | an event where a large number of meteoroids burn up as they enter the earth's atmosphere
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| nebula | any of the glowing clouds of gas or dust reflecting the light of nearby stars
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| nova | a star that suddenly flares up to many times its original brightness before fading again
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| Polaris | the North Star, always above Earth's North Pole
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| pulsar | a star that sends energy out in pulses
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| quasar | an object about the size of a star that gives off huge amounts of energy
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| satellite | an object in space that revolves around a planet
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| shooting star | a meteoroid (space rock or dust from a comet or broken-up asteroid) that burns up in the earth's atmosphere; a meteor
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| sky | the part of the atmosphere or of outer space visible from the surface of Earth or any other planet
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| star | a distant sun glowing from heat produced by nuclear reactions at its center
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| Ursa Major | a constellation that can be seen all year in the Northern Hemisphere
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