The Universe Flashcards

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Une année lumière

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a light year

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Le vide

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the void

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Un corps céleste

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a celestial body

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Une étoile

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a star

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Une étoile filante

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a shooting star

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Une constellation

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a constellation

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Une nébuleuse

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a nebula

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Une galaxie

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a galaxy

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La Voie lactée

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the Milky Way

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Un trou noir

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a black hole

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Un météore

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a meteor

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Une météorite

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a meteorite

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Un cratère

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a creter

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Une comète

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a comet

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La queue d’une comète

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the tail of a comet

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Une naine blanche / noire

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a white / black dwarf

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Un astéroïde

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an asteroid

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L’étoile du berger

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the Evening Star

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L’étoile du Nord

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the North Star

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L’étoile Poliaire

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the Pole Star

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La Grand Ourse

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the Plough (GB), the Big Dipper (US)

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La Petite Ourse

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the Little Bear (GB), the Little Dipper (US)

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Le Croix de Sud

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the Southerm Cross

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Universel

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unviversal

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Planétaire

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planetary

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Interplanétaire

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interplanetary

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Sidéral

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sidereal

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étoilé sans étoiles

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starry starless

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Extra-terrestre

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extra-terrestrial

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30
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Le Soleil

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the Sun

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La lumière du Soleil

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sunlight

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Un rayon de Soleil

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a sunray

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Une tache solaire

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a sunspot

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34
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Le lever du soleil

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the sunrise

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35
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Le coucher du soleil

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the sunset = a sundown

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Une planète

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a planet

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Un orbite

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an orbit

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La terre

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the Earth

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39
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La lune

A

the Moon

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Jupiter

A

Jupiter

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Mars

A

Mars

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Mercure

A

Mercury

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Neptune

A

Neptune

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Pluton

A

Pluto

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Vénus

A

Venus

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Saturne

A

Saturn

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Uranus

A

Uranus

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L’atmosphère

A

the atmosphere

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La stratosphère

A

la stratosphere

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Le ciel

A

the sky

51
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L’aurore boréale

A

the Northern Lights = the aurora borealis

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Le zénith

A

the zenith

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Un axe

A

an axis

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Une rotation

A

a rotation

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Une révolution

A

a revolution

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Un rayon de la lune

A

a moonbeam

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Un lever de la lune

A

a moonrise

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Le claire de la lune

A

the moonlight

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La nouvelle lune

A

the new moon

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Un croissant de lune

A

a crescent moon

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La pleine lune

A

the full moon

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Le premier / dernier quartier de la lune

A

the moon’s first / last quarter

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Une éclipse

A

an eclipse

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Orbital

A

Orbiting

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Tourner

A

to rotate

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Tourner, graviter

A

to revolve

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Briller

A

to shine

68
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L’astronomie

A

astronomy

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Un astronome

A

an astronomer

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Un observatoire

A

an observatory

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Un télescope

A

a telescope

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L’ére spatiale

A

the space age

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Une base de lancement

A

a spaceport

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Une aire de lancement

A

a launching pad

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Le compte à rebours

A

the cuontdown

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Un lancement

A

a launch

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Un astronaute

A

an astronaut

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Un cosmonaute

A

a cosmonaut

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L’apesanteur

A

weightlessness

80
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La pesanteur

A

gravity

81
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Une fusée

A

a rocket

82
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Une second spatiale

A

a space probe

83
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Un vaisseau spatiale

A

a spaceship = a spacecraft

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Une navette spatiale

A

a space shuttle

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Une capsule spatiale

A

a space capsule

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Une station spatiale

A

a space station

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Un vol spatiale

A

a space flight

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Un vol habité

A

a manned flight

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Un satellite

A

a satellite

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La transmission par satellite

A

satellite transmission

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Un paysage lunaire

A

a moonscape

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Une jeep lunaire

A

a moon buggy

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Un alunissage

A

a moon landing

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Voyager dans l’espace

A

to travel through sapce

95
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Décoller

A

to take off = to lift off

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Mettre en orbite

A

to put in orbit

97
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Alunir

A

to land on the moon