UNIVERSE VOCABULARY

VOCABULARY PART 1

• GALAXY: A very large group of stars, gas and dust held together by gravity.

• ASTRONOMER: A person who studies space.

• ORBIT: An orbit is a regular, repeating path that one object in space takes around another one.

• CONSTELLATION: One of 88 grouping of stars that make an imaginary picture.

• SOLAR SYSTEM: A star and the objects that orbit it.

• STAR: A bright, shining ball of gases such as Earth’s sun, usually seen in the night sky.

• MERCURY: The smallest and closest planet to the sun. It’s similar in size to the moon.

• VENUS: It’s the hottest planet in our solar system. It’s covered in lava. At night, it looks like a bright star in the sky.

• EARTH: It’s our home and the only planet known to support life. It’s covered by oceans.

• MARS: It looks reddish because there is a lot of iron in the rocks on the surface.

• JUPITER: It’s the biggest planet in our Solar System, all other planets could fit inside it.

• SATURN: It has thousand of rings that are made of icy rocks. It has at least 53 moons.

• URANUS: It’s tilted and it spins sideways. It’s the coldest planet. It has at least 27 moons.

• NEPTUNE: It’s a gas giant. It takes 165 years to travel all the way around the sun.

• SUN: It’s a star. It gives us hot and light so it keeps plants and animals on Earth alive. It’s the center of the Solar System.

• SATELLITE: A spacefcraft that orbits a planet and is filled with equipment to do jobs such as tracking weather and making maps.

• TELESCOPE: A piece of equipment, shaped like a tube, that makes far away things look closer.

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