The Solar System and Beyond

a boll of rock and ice that orbits the sun

• asteroid
• comet
• nebula
• star

a rocky metallic object that orbits the sun

• star
• comet
• asteroid
• meteor

the brightness of a star

• magnitude
• temperature
• brightness
• quasar

a cloud of gas and dust in space is a

• quasar
• parallax
• meteor
• nebula

an extremely bright, extremely distant, high-energy source

• quasar
• supernova
• meteor
• star

a meteoroid that enters earth's atmosphere and burns with a streak of light

• star
• nebula
• meteor
• meteorite

a star that explodes

• meteor
• supernova
• black hole
• white dwarf

a large, hot ball of gas that gives off its own light

• sun
• star
• black hole 
• white dwarf

apparent shift in an objects location when viewed from two positions

• spectrum
• magnitude
• light-year
• parallax

a band of colors made when white light is broken down

• spectrum
• magnitude
• light-year
• parallax