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- 3. Telescope, Tool that uses mirrors to focus light rays to produce images of objects in space
- 5. Eclipse, occurs when the Moon passes directly between the Sun and Earth, blocking the Sun’s light and casting a shadow over a certain area on Earth. This can only occur during a New Moon.
- 6. Probe, contains instruments to collect data and travel out of Earth’s orbit to explore places that would be too dangerous for astronomers
- 8. a star in the Milky Way galaxy located in a spiral arm about two-thirds of the way from the center of the galaxy.
- 9. made up of gas, dust, and billions of stars and have different shapes (elliptical, spiral, irregular)
- 10. the rise and fall of the surface levels of Earth’s ocean water caused by the gravitational effects of the Sun and Moon on
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- 1. Eclipse, occurs when Earth passes directly between the Sun and the Moon, blocking the Sun’s light so that Earth’s shadow hits the Moon casting a shadow over the Moon. This can only occur during a Full Moon.
- 2. chunks of rock that burn upon entering a planet’s atmosphere.
- 4. Most are rocky bodies covered with craters, but some have unique characteristics.
- 7. occurs when an object in space passes directly between two other objects or between the object and the viewer.