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Quiz#7 October 4, 2017

1. A gravitationally bound system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and
dark matter.
2. The portion of a spiral galaxy concentrated at the center protruding out of the galactic
plane.
3. The portion of a spiral galaxy containing the spiral arms.
4. The portion of a spiral galaxy encircling the galaxy itself and believed to be
containing dark matter.
5. The type of galaxy within which our own galaxy is classified.
6. The type of galaxy that has no distinct features.
7. The type of galaxy galaxies which are shaped like a spheriod, or elongated sphere.
8. The name of our galaxy.
9. The closest galaxy believed to collide with our own galaxy four billion years from
now.
10. The term for the location of our solar system in the Milky Way galaxy.
11. The term for the center of our Milky Way containing a supermassive blackhole.
12. The scientific study of the large scale properties of the universe as a whole.
13. The study of celestial objects and the physics, chemistry, and evolution of such
objects and processes, and all other phenomena that originate outside the
atmosphere of Earth.
14. A vast mass of gas from which a galaxy is thought to develop.
15. The prevailing theory regarding the origin of the universe.
16. The largest satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
17. The galaxy group that includes the Milky Way and more than 54 galaxies, most of
them dwarf galaxies.
18. A region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation
can escape.
19. This galaxy has a bright central core and a large gap before a ring of hot, blue stars.
20. One of the larger of the two satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way named after
Ferdinand Magellan.
21. The nuclei of many galaxies that are more luminous than the rest of the galaxy light.
22. An imaginary plane that slices the galaxy in half.
23. The path followed by the sun, moon, and the planets.
24. A planet orbiting a star outside our solar system.
25. A region around a star where water can exist in liquid form on the surface of a rocky
planet.