Earth And Space Flashcards

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Galaxies

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a huge collection of gas, dust, and billions of stars and their solar systems

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Solar system

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the collection of eight planets and their moons in orbit round the sun

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Astronomer

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a scientist who studies the stars, planets, and other natural objects in space.

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Expanding univers

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That it has been growing ever since its beginning with the Big Bang

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Singularity

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a point at which a function takes an infinite value, especially in space–time when matter is infinitely dense, such as at the centre of a black hole.

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Gravity

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the force that attracts a body towards the centre of the earth, or towards any other physical body having mass.

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Star

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a fixed luminous point in the night sky which is a large, remote incandescent body like the sun.

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Planet

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a celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit round a star

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Cosmology

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an account or theory of the origin of the universe

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Celestial body

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Moon

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a natural satellite of any planet.

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Asteroid

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a small rocky body orbiting the sun. Large numbers of these, ranging enormously in size, are found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, though some have more eccentric orbits.

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Comet

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a celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust and, when near the sun, a ‘tail’ of gas and dust particles pointing away from the sun

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