Space Vocabulary

All of space, including stars, planets, galaxies, and everything in between.

• asteroid
• solar system
• galaxy
• universe

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A huge collection of stars, dust, and gas held together by gravity. The Milky Way is our galaxy.

• Orion
• Andromeda
• Galaxy

• Pleiades

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A star (like our sun) and all of the planets and other objects that orbit around it.

• Galaxy
• Solar System
• Constellation
• Universe

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A large body in space that orbits a star and does not produce its own light.

• planet
• galaxy
• moon
• comet

A huge ball of hot, glowing gasses that produces heat and light through nuclear reactions.

• Star
• Galaxy
• Comet
• Planet

The scientific study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere.

• Biology
• Astronomy
• Geology
• Chemistry

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A group of stars that form a pattern in the sky, often named after mythological figures or objects.

• constellation
• galaxy
• nebula
• asteroid

A region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape from it.

• Dark spot
• Void zone
• Infinite pit
• Black hole

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A cloud of gas and dust in space, where new stars are born.

• Galaxy
• Comet
• Supernova
• Nebula

The path that an object takes as it moves around another object in space, like a planet around a star.

• loop
• circle
• rotation
• orbit

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