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- 3. the partially shaded outer region of the shadow cast by an opaque object.
- 5. is a description of the cosmos where Earth is at the orbital center of all celestial bodies.
- 8. sun's light hits the moon, moon = shade to earth
- 10. German mathematician
- 11. the fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object like the moon
- 12. A is a piece of stony or metallic debris which travels in outer space
- 14. is a type of stellar remnant that can result from the gravitational collapse of a massive star after a supernova.
- 15. the begining of a stars life
- 18. someone who study's the universe
- 21. is the matter that exists in the space between the star systems in a galaxy
- 26. An example of a __________is our sun
- 28. bigRocks in the universe
- 30. when you see quater of a moon
- 32. you can see them with your naked eye from earth, they make a constellation
- 33. is the change in frequency of a wave (or other periodic event) for an observer moving relative to its source
- 37. Patterns of the moons movement
- 39. early phases of a star
- 40. is an astronomical event that occurs twice each year as the Sun reaches its highest or lowest excursion relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere
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- 1. eclipse earth passes between the sun and the moon
- 2. a diagram that shows the life of a star
- 4. spend billions of years fusing hydrogen to helium in their cores
- 6. when you see a whole moon
- 7. Is a constalation
- 9. 23.5 degrees
- 13. is a theory that places the Sun as the center of the universe, and the planets orbiting around it.
- 16. stars in the universe
- 17. _________ go through a similar process to low mass stars in the beginning, except that it all happens much faster
- 19. a well known constalation
- 20. cooler and dimmer stars
- 22. italian astronomer
- 23. hotter and dimmer in lumonosity
- 24. stellar explosion that briefly outshines an entire galaxy,
- 25. the earth _____ rotates around the sun
- 27. is a telescope that uses infrared light to detect celestial bodies
- 29. is a bright streak of light in the sky a shooting star
- 31. a white dwarf that has cooled down to the temperature of the cosmic microwave background, and so is invisible
- 34. Polish astronmer
- 35. Black holes are places where ordinary gravity has become so extreme that it overwhelms all other forces in the Universe. Once inside, nothing can escape a black hole's gravity
- 36. hydroden atoms combine to form a heavier element of helium, this creates an enormous amount of energy
- 38. Greek astronomer
