The Solar System

The star at the center of our solar system

an imagainary line around the Earth equally distant from the North and South Poles

To spin on an axis

One of the shapes the moon seems to have as it orbits Earth is called the moon phase

a natural body that revolves around a planet

a low, bowl-shaped area on the surface of a planet or moon

An imaginary line that passes through Earth's center at the North and South Poles

a pattern of stars named after amythological or religious figure, an object or an animal

a group of gas, dust and many stars, plus any objects that orbit those stars

The path one body takes in space as it relvoves around another

The bending of light as it moves from one material to another

a star and all the planets and other objects that revolve around it

a huge ball of very hot gasses.

a body that revolves around a star is a planet

everything that exists, including such things as stars, planets, gas, dust and energy

an event that occurs when one object in space passes through the shadow of another