The Universe
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- Moon
- natural satellite that orbits the Earth
- Types of Satellites
- weather, TV, radio, internet
- Irregular Galaxy
- no shape and not found often
- Jupiter
- the fifth planet from the sun, the biggest planet
- Spiral Galaxy
- pinwheel shaped arms
- Hotter
- Stars that are brighter are
- Elliptical Galaxy
- round or oval shape
- Milky Way
- the galaxy in which we live
- telescope
- used to look at the stars far away
- Is there oxygen in space?
- no
- Barred Spiral Galaxy
- only a couple pinwheel shaped arms
- Solar System
- includes all the objects that orbit our sun
- Sun
- Center of our Solar System that gives us light and heat
- Galaxy
- billions of stars, planets, dust and gas pulled together by gravity
- Satellites
- man-made machines that orbit the Earth and send back information
- Mercury
- the first planet from the sun
- Earth
- the third planet from the sun, where we live
- Constellations
- groups of stars with names like the Big Dipper
- Shapes of Galaxies
- spiral, elliptical, barred spiral, irregular
- Star
- huge, hot ball of gas
- Pluto
- no longer considered a planet, it is very small!
- Venus
- the second planet from the sun
- Neptune
- the eighth plane from the sun, the blue planet
- Big Bang
- universe started with a big explosion that made stars and galaxies
- Mars
- the fourth planet from the sun, called the red planet
- Saturn
- the sixth planet from the sun, the one with rings
- orbit
- planets paths around the sun
- Uranus
- the seventh planet from the sun
- Still growing outward
- Universe
- NASA
- American Space Agency