Solar System and Stars Vocabulary

What is are home galaxy?

• Snickers Galaxy

• Kit Kat Galaxy

• Milky Way Galaxy

• Nebula Galaxy

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A group of billions of stars, the objects that orbit the stars, gas, and dust

• Stars

• Galaxy

• Astronomy

• Planet

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All existing matter and space considered as a whole

• Universe

• Galaxy

• Stars

• Planet

Huge balls of hot glowing gas (Sun)

• Galaxy

• Universe

• Planet

• Stars

The study of objects in space and their characteristics

• Solar System

• Astronomy

• Moon

• Stars

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Farthest from the Sun: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune

• Inner Planets

• Outer Planets

• Stars

• Planets

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Closest to the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars

• Stars

• Outer Planets

• Inner Planets

• Planets

A large, round body that revolves around a star in clear orbit

• Stars

• Planet

• Earth

• Pluto

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Stars, planets and other bodies that revolve around it

• Penguin System

• Sun System

• Solar System

• Nebula

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Earth's Satellite, largest and brightest objects in the night sky

• Revolution

• Orbit

• Moon Phase

• Moon

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