Space, The area beyond Earth's atmosphere, Stars, A huge glowing ball of gas, like the sun, Telescope, A tool that uses lenses and mirrors to collect and focus light so that objects in space can be seen more clearly, Satellite, An object that orbits another object in space, Sapce Probes, An unscrewed vehicle that is used to collect information to send back to Earth, Astronomical Unit (AU), The average distance from the Sun to Earth. , Inner Planets, A small rocky planet like Earth, Outer Planets, Large planets located outside the asteroid belt, mostly made of gases, Asteroid Belt, A band of asteroids, Asteroid, Very large chunks of irregularly shaped rock floating in space, Dwarf Planet, Round bodies that orbit the Sun. It share their orbits with other space objects, Comet, Small bodies made of lumps of rock, metal, and dust covered with ice, Craters, Saucer-shaped holes formed when asteroids or meteorites strike a planet's or moon's surface, Constellations, Groups of stars that form recognizable patterns, Light year, The distance light travels in one Earth year. , Galaxy, A huge system containing hundreds of billions of stars held together by gravity, Milky Way, The galaxy that our Solar System is part of. It contains over 100 billion stars., Universe, Made up of hundreds of billions of galaxies, includes Earth and all matter and energy.

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