Large Celestial Bodies
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1. named set of specific stars which, from the point of view of the observer, form a group constellation
2. a light-emitting ball of plasma held together by gravity neutron star
3. a celestial body with a gravitational field so strong that light cannot escape it star
4. a pair of stars in orbit around their common center of gravity supernova
5. an event so massive that it rips apart its star, and which can release enough energy to briefly outshine an entire galaxy pulsar
6. an event on a star that causes the star to greatly increase in brightness nova
7. a galactic nucleus, or center, from which massive amounts of energy are emitted; so far only found in some very distant galaxies The Milky Way
8. the galaxy in which our solar system is located galaxy
9. a rapidly rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic energy at regular intervals black hole
10. a large cloud of gas and dust in outer space quasar
11. a large, isolated, gravitationally bound group of stars nebula
12. the remnant of a collapsed star that was not massive enough to form a black hole binary star



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