Astronomy Terms

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A comet is a

The wavelength of the light is stretched, so the light is seen as 'shifted' towards the red part of the spectrum

A piece of rock or metal that burns and glows brightly in the sky as it falls from outer space into the Earth's atmosphere is a

________ tides with the smallest daily tidal range and occur during the first and third quarters of the moon

A period of twenty-four hours as a unit of time is a

The star that is located in a spiral arm in the Milky way, and is orbited by all of the planets

A straight line that divides a shape evenly into two parts is a

A spin around on an axis (a point) is a