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Galaxies

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Universe   all existing matter and space considered as a whole; the cosmos  
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Galaxy   Is a system of millions or billions of stars, made of as and dust, held together by gravitational attraction, Differrent sizes and shapes  
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Disk shaped galaxy   Spiral orr disk shaped, Has¨Arrms¨, Dense center We live in a spiral ggalaxy called the milky way  
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Spiral shaped galaxy   Spiral orr disk shaped, Has¨Arrms¨, Dense center We live in a spiral ggalaxy called the milky way  
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Irregular shaped galaxy   NO deined shape no clear bulge or disk, The leftovers off two coliding galaxies  
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Elliptical shaped galaxy   Oval-Shapped, Most aundant galaxies in the unierse, Most ae composed of older low-mass stas  
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Milky Way   a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye  
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Light Year   a unit of astronomical distance equivalent to the distance that light travels in one year, which is 9.4607 × 10^12 km (nearly 6 trillion miles).  
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Cluster   a group of similar things or people positioned or occurring closely together.  
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Andromeda Galaxy   the galaxy nearest to the Milky Way, usually seen as a large collection of stars arranged in a central core with spiral arms  
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