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Homework:
5/13 - Copy vocabulary words in NB - Test on Thursday.
5/13 - Copy vocabulary words in NB - Test on Thursday.
1. constellations - a group of stars named after animals, characters in mythology, or familiar objects.
2. galaxy - a system of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction.
3. Nebula - a cloud of gas and dust in outer space, visible in the night sky either as an indistinct bright patch or as a dark silhouette against other luminous matter.
4. Photosphere - The directly visible outer layer or atmosphere of a star, especially of the sun. pho′to·spher′ic2. galaxy - a system of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction.
3. Nebula - a cloud of gas and dust in outer space, visible in the night sky either as an indistinct bright patch or as a dark silhouette against other luminous matter.
5. Light Year - a unit of astronomical distance equivalent to the distance that light travels in one year, which is 9.4607 × 1012 km (nearly 6 trillion miles).
6. Supernova - a star that suddenly increases greatly in brightness because of a catastrophic explosion that ejects most of its mass.
7. Supergiant - Any of various very massive, large, and bright stars, such as Betelgeuse or Rigel, having a luminosity that is thousands of times greater than that of the sun.
8. Black hole - a region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation can escape.
9. chromosphere - is an outer layer of the sun. This layer can only be viewed during an eclipse when the rest of the sun is blocked.
10. Sunspots - a spot or patch appearing from time to time on the sun's surface, appearing dark by contrast with its surroundings.
11. binary system is a system of two objects in space (usually stars, but also brown dwarfs, planets, galaxies, or asteroids) which are so close that their gravitational interaction causes them to orbit about a common center of mass.
12. Corona - A faintly colored luminous ring appearing to surround a celestial body (such as the Moon or Sun) that is visible through a haze or thin cloud, caused by diffraction of light from suspended matter in the intervening medium
13. prominence is a large, bright, gaseous feature extending outward from the Sun's surface, often in a loop shape.
14. Elliptical galaxies range from circular (remember, a circle is an ellipse!) to long, narrow, and cigar-shaped.
15. Know the colors of the stars and which one is the hottesst.
