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What is a telescope?
A device used to gaze at stars with.
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What is a Galaxy?
A huge, rotating collection of gases, dust, and billions of stars, and other celestial objects.
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What is a Moon?
A type of satellite that orbits a planet or dwarf planet in a closed path.
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What are gas giants?
Jupiter and Saturn are this type of planets.
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What is the universe?
A similar term would be the cosmos.
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What is a Spiral Galaxy?
These galaxies are disked shapes with dusty, curvy arms.
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What is the Moon's gravity?
The influence of this produces ocean tides.
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What are terrestrial planets?
The four planets closest to the sun are known to be this type of planets.
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What is an Astronomer?
A person that discovers billions of scattered galaxies throughout the universe with a telescope.
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What is a black hole?
Many galaxies contain this in their center.
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What is an orbit?
A closed path of a celestial object as it travel around another celestial object.
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What is a solar system?
All celestial objects travel around it.
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What is luminosity (luminous)?
Producing and giving off light; shining.
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What is a Starburst Galaxy?
These types of galaxies originates from disruption of gravitational pull from neighboring galaxies.
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What is the diameter?
The Moon's _________ is four time smaller than Earth's.
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What is a dwarf planet?
A celestial object that orbits the Sun and has a spherical shape but does not dominate its orbit.
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