lunar eclipse
• An eclipse of the moon is an occasion when the Earth is between the sun and the moon, so that for a short time you cannot see part or all of the moon.
The Solar System
• The solar system is the sun and all the planets that go round it.
• the system containing the sun and the bodies held in its gravitational field, including the planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune), the dwarf planets (Eris, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Ceres), the asteroids, and comets
comet
• A comet is a bright object with a long tail that travels around the sun.
• a celestial body that travels around the sun, usually in a highly elliptical orbit: thought to consist of a solid frozen nucleus part of which vaporizes on approaching the sun to form a gaseous luminous coma and a long luminous tail
stars in the constellation Ursa Major
the Little Dipper
• Ursa Minor, the Bear, the Little Bear • a small faint constellation, the brightest
star of which is the Pole Star
• A moon is an object similar to a small planet that travels around a planet.
solar eclipse
• the total or partial obscuring of the sun by the moon
• An eclipse of the sun is an occasion when the moon is between the Earth and the sun, so that for a short time you cannot see part or all of the sun.
meteor
• A meteor is a piece of rock or metal that burns very brightly when it enters the earth's atmosphere from space.
• Such objects have speeds approaching 70 kilometres per second
sun
• The sun is the ball of fire in the sky that the Earth goes round, and that gives us heat and light.
• A sun is any star which has planets going around it.
• we are a family • within the family • we are a human • within the human • WE ARE THE UNIVERSE
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the Universe
galaxy
• A galaxy is an extremely large group of stars and planets that extends over many billions of light years.
constellation
• A constellation is a group of stars which form a pattern and have a name.
the Bigger Dipper
• B.E.: the Plough, Charles's Wain • the group of the seven brightest
• Synonyms: star system, solar system
• The Galaxy
star
• A star is a large ball of burning gas in space. Stars appear to us as small points of light in the sky on clear nigis the object that you can often see in the sky at night. It goes round the Earth once every four weeks, and as it does so its appearance changes from a circle to part of a circle.
We Are The Universe
• within the universe • we are a nation • within the nation • we are a religion • within the religion • we are a lingual • within the lingual • we are a caste • within the caste