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left over material free floating in space |
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a pattern of stars in the night sky |
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the average distance from the earth to the sun |
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the distance light energy travels in one year (186,000 miles per second) |
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the movement of an object around another object (earth around the sun yearly) |
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the spinning motion of a planet about its axis |
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a giant structure that contains hundreds of billions of stars |
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an area of gas and dust where stars are born |
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any object that revolves around another object in space |
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everything that is outside our atmosphere |
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a giant ball of glowing gas |
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