Astronomy Terms Review

The solid objects mostly made of rocks and minerals

• Kuiper Belt

• Milky Way

• Asteroid

• Meteor

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Are different from asteroids in many aspects and are relatively small in size

• International Space Station

• Hubble Space Telescope

• Comets

• Meteor

Objects in our universe that are know for their very strong gravity

• Black Hole

• Asteroid

• Jupiter

• Solar System

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS2-4

The space objects that are mostly made of ice and rock

• Pluto

• Spacecraft

• Comets

• International Space Stations

The home of stars and other cosmic objects

• Earth

• Moon

• Galaxy

• Universe

A very large telescope that has been placed in the orbit around the earth

• Galaxy

• Hubble Space Telescope

• Universe

• Meteors

A satellite designed and launched by NASA together with other space agency

• International Space Station

• Hubble Space Telescope

• Moon

• Stars

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

Has many objects which include dust, comets, asteroids, and dwarf planets. It is the chemical makeup of smaller objects is very hard to find because its very far from Earth

• Comets

• Stars

• Universe

• Kuiper Belt

Is a unique galaxy in a sense that it houses a solar system that contains life

• Kuiper Belt

• Milky Way

• Universe

• Black Hole

The densest known objects after the black holes found in universe

• Universe

• Black Hole

• Neutron Star

• Star