astronomy words a-z

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Astronomy question please help?

I need astronomy words a-z any like a for asteroid anyone that can give me the most with a brief explanation if what it is I’ll give 10 points thank

b- black hole

c- crater

d- DEIMOS – the smaller of the 2 moons of mars

e- ELARA Jupiters 12th moon

f- Falling star a meteor burning in the earths atmosphere

g- Galaxy – A galaxy is a huge group of stars and other celestial bodies bound together by gravitational forces

H- halo – A halo is a luminous ring that is sometimes seen surrounding the sun or the moon

I- IAPETUS – one of the 18 moons of saturn

J – Jupiter the largest planet in the solar system

K- KUIPER BELT – The Kuiper belt is a region beyond Neptune in which at least 70,000 small objects (KBO’s) orbit

L- Larissa – a tiny moon of Neptune

M – MAGELLANIC CLOUDS – The Magellanic Clouds are irregular-shaped galaxies, congregations of millions of stars.

N- Nebula – A nebula is a huge, diffuse cloud of gas and dust in intergalactic space

O- OORT CLOUD – The Oort Cloud is a cloud of rocks and dust that may surround our solar system.

P- Pallas – the second-biggest asteroid and one of the four brightest asteroids.

Q- Quasar (more recently known as a QSO, Quasi-Stellar Object) is a distant star-sized energy source in space with excess of ultraviolet.

R- Radio galaxy is a galaxy that emits radio waves.

S- SAROS – The saros is the roughly 18-year periodic cycle of the Earth-Moon-Sun system.

T- TELESTO – of of saturns 18 moons

U- Umbra – the inner, dark, cool (3700 K = 6600 °F = 3400 °C) region of a sunspot.

V- Vega – (Alpha Lyrae) is a very bright star in the constellation Lyra.

W- White dwarf – a small, very dense, hot star near the end of its life.

X- X-rays – a type of electromagnetic radiation (between ultraviolet light and gamma rays in wavelength, frequency, and energy) – basically, it’s light that is way past the blue-violet end of the visible spectrum – we cannot see it.

Y- Yellow dwarfs – small, main sequence stars. The Sun is a yellow dwarf.

Z- Zodiacal light – a slight glow in the sky that is near the horizon and has a roughly triangular shape.


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