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Was a Greek writer wrote a of astronomer

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Ptolemy

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He wrote a theory on astronomer

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Copernicus

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He was an nobleman Used several large tools to detail astronomical observations

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Brahe, Tycho

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He was a mathematician he stated 3 laws

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Kepler, Johannes

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He was an astronomer also was first person to use telescope

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Galileo

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Was an English mathematician he created laws of gravity

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Newton, Isaac

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He was an astronomer proved that galaxies were beyond the milky way

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Hubble, Edwin

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1 of the 48 constellations

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Ursa major

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9
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It is known as the little bear

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Ursa minor

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10
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Located on the celestial equator

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Orion

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it is an constanellation

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Canis major

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12
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Is a constellation in the northern sky

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Cassiopeia

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13
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It is a luminus giant star

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Red giant

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14
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A small very dense star

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white darf

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15
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A star that steadily increases

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supernova

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16
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A place have a gravitational feild

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black hole

17
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A unit of astronomical distance

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light year

18
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Star at the handle of the little dipper

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polaris

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The position of direction

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parallax

20
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Atoms at the core

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main sequence star