ULS HS Around the Solar System Vocab

a giant ball of extremely hot gas that burns and gives off heat and light

a tool that makes faraway objects look bigger and closer

a force that weighs down objects

a person who travels into space

a star in the center of the solar system that burns gas and gives off heat and light

a group of stars, planets, dust and gas

a group of objects in space, including the Sun and everything that moves around it

a craft that is reused to carry people into space and back to Earth

The planet you live on

a large round object in space that follows a path and moves around a star like the sun

to spin on a center point

everything that can be seen, touched and sensed above Earth's atmosphere

to move around somehting in a circular path

A large peice of rock or metal flying in space that is left over from the planets

an object that moves around Earth that we see mostly at nightitme in phases

an object that moves around Earth and sends messages and pictures to help us learn about space

an imaginary line objects in space follow as they move around a larger object