Earth's Place in the Universe

Our galaxy is called

• Andromeda

• The Milky Way

• Ceres

• Asteroid Belt

A large collection of stars is a

• galaxy

• starship

• universe

• stardust

Includes space and all of the energy and matter with it.

• The universe

• The Milky Way

• The galaxy

• The Andromeda

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Invented the telescope

• Keppler

• Brahe

• Galilei

• Copernicus

Created the Heliocentric Theory

• Galilei

• Copernicus

• Kepler

• Brahe

A large group of stars

• star dust

• universe

• galaxy

• globular clusters

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year

• light year

• rotation

• revolution

• black hole

An instrument that collects and concentrates light from distant objects to make objects appear larger or brighter

• rocket

• telescope

• astrolabe

• comet

Small bodies of ice, rock , and dust.

• planets

• moons

• comets

• nebulas

The ____________________ theory states that all objects in the solar system orbit planet Earth.

• heliocentric

• planetary

• earthly

• geocentric