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55 Cards in this Set
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Galaxy |
a system of billions of stars. |
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Milky Way Galaxy |
contains the solar system. |
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Spiral Gaslaxy |
a flat galaxy. |
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Irregular Galaxy |
large amounts of gas and dust. |
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Light Years |
units of astronomical distance equivalent to the distance of 9.4607 × 1012 km equals to 6 trillion miles. |
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Elliptical Galaxy |
a blurry dot that a galaxy |
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Revolution/Orbit |
Going around. |
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Rotation |
Turning. |
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Terrestrial |
Of, on, or relating to earth |
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Planet |
Ball of dust and gas. |
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Celestial Object |
A natural object outside of the earths atmosphere. |
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Star |
Large remote luminous point the the night sky. |
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Dwarf Planet |
Celestial object that resembles a small planet. |
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Moons/Natural satellites |
The natural satellites of the earth reflected by the sun. |
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Asteroids |
A small rocky body orbiting the sun. |
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Meteorites |
A meteor that survives passing through earths atmosphere. |
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Meteors |
A small body of matter from space that enters earths atmosphere. |
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Meteoroids |
A small body moving in the solar system. |
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Coments |
A tail of gas and dust particles pointing away from the sun. |
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Photosphere |
The luminous envelope of a star which its light and heat radiate. |
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Corona |
The rarefied gaseous envelope of the sun and other stars. |
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Solar flares |
A brief eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface. |
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Prominences |
A eruption of a flame-like tongue of relatively cool. |
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Sunspots |
A spot on the sun that is cooler than other area's on the sun. |
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Solar Wind |
A stream of particles emitted by the sun and permeating the solar system. |
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Aurora's |
Reddish or greenish light in the sky |
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Magnetic Storms |
A disturbance of the magnetic field of the earth. |
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Axis |
An imaginary line where the earth tilts on. |
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Solstice |
Two times in the year where the longest and shortest day appears. |
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Equinox |
A time in the year where both night and day are equal. |
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Hemisphere |
Half of the earth is divided into the north and the south. |
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New Moon |
Time where the moon doesn't appear in the sky. |
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Waxing Crescent |
When the moon starts to appear more. |
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First Quarter |
When half of the moon is appearing. |
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Waxing Gibbous |
when the moon starts to show more. |
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Full Moon |
When the whole entire moon is showing. |
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Waning Gibbous |
When the moon is disappearing. |
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Third Quarter |
when half of the moon is showing |
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Waning Crescent |
when the moon is going away |
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Gravitational Force |
Any celestial object in the universe attracts to one object or more. |
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Mass |
Amount of matter in an object |
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Weight |
A bodies relative mass or quantity. |
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Tides |
The alternate rising and falling of waves |
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Spring Tides |
The most extreme tides ever |
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Neap Tides |
The most weakest tides ever |
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Solar Eclipse |
When the moon is directly in between the earth and sun |
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Lunar eclipse |
When the moon is behind the earth |
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Triple Beam Balence |
A tool that measures mass |
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Spring Scale |
Tool that measures weight. |
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Refracting Opticial Telescope |
A refractor telescope that is used in a way that the lens form the picture differently.
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Reflecting Optical Telescope
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a telescope that combines 2 things into 1 thing. |
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Radio Telescope |
A radio telescope is an astornomical instrument that recieves radio. |
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Satellite |
a satellite is an artificial object which has been intentionally placed into orbit.
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Space Probes |
A blunt ended instrument that study a part of a body. |
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Spectroscopes |
Instrument that is used to study the light. |
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