Space

Ball of hot gas that gives off light

• planet

• star

• moon

A group of stars that makes a pattern shaped like an animal, person, or object

• constellation

• galaxy

• meteor

The largest star in our galaxy

• Moon

• Sun

• Jupiter

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

• constellation

• asteroid

• galaxy

A nearly round body that is too small to be a planet but too big to be an asteroid

• meteor

• comet

• dwarf planet

A rock and iron object that orbits the Sun

• asteroid

• meteoroid

• comet

Pieces of rock that break off of asteroids and travel through space

• meteoroid

• star

• comet

Meteoroids that reach Earth's surface

• meteor

• meteorite

• comet

A meteoroid that breaks up in Earth's atmosphere, also known as a shooting star

• meteor

• meteorite

• comet

A chunk of frozen gas, rock, ice, and dust that orbits around the sun (has a tail)

• comet

• meteor

• asteroid