UNIVERSE

BY
MICAIAH JENELLE
 GALAXY
Galaxies are sprawling
systems of dust, gas, dark
matter, and anywhere from a
million to a trillion stars that
are held together by gravity.
Nearly all large galaxies are
thought to also contain
supermassive black holes at
their centers.
SATELLITE
• n the context of spaceflight, a
satellite is an object that has
been intentionally placed into
orbit. These objects are called
artificial satellites to
distinguish them from natural
satellites such as Earth's
Moon. On 4 October 1957,
the Soviet Union launched
the world's first artificial
satellite, Sputnik
STAR
• A star is an astronomical object
consisting of a luminous spheroid of
plasma held together by its own
gravity. The nearest star to Earth is
the Sun. Many other stars are
visible to the naked eye at night, but
due to their immense distance from
Earth they appear as fixed points of
light in the sky.
 SUN
The Sun is the heart of
our solar system and its
gravity is what keeps every
planet and particle in orbit.
This yellow dwarf star is just
one of billions like it across
the Milky Way galaxy.
MOON THE
SATELITE
The Moon is an astronomical
body orbiting Earth and is the
planet's only natural satellite.
It is the fifth-largest satellite
in the Solar System, and by far
the largest among planetary
satellites relative to the size of
the planet that it orbits.
MERCURY
• Mercury is the smallest planet in
the Solar System and the closest
to the Sun. Its orbit around the
Sun takes 87.97 Earth days, the
shortest of all the Sun's planets.
VENUS
• Venus is the second planet from
the Sun. It is named after the
Roman goddess of love and
beauty. As the brightest natural
object in Earth's night sky after
the Moon, Venus can cast
shadows and can be, on rare
occasions, visible to the naked
eye in broad daylight.
EARTH
• Earth is the third planet from the
Sun and the only astronomical
object known to harbor and
support life. About 29.2% of
Earth's surface is land consisting
of continents and islands.
MARS
• Mars is the fourth planet from
the Sun and the second-
smallest planet in the Solar
System, being larger than only
Mercury. In English, Mars
carries the name of the Roman
god of war and is often
referred to as the "Red
Planet".
JUPITER
• Jupiter is the fifth planet from the
Sun and the largest in the Solar
System. It is a gas giant with a
mass two and a half times that of
all the other planets in the Solar
System combined, but less than
one-thousandth the mass of the
Sun.
SATURN
• Saturn is the sixth planet from
the Sun and the second-largest
in the Solar System, after
Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an
average radius of about nine
and a half times that of Earth. It
only has one-eighth the average
density of Earth; however, with
its larger volume, Saturn is over
95 times more massive.
URANUS
• Uranus is the seventh planet
from the Sun. Its name is a
reference to the Greek god of
the sky, Uranus, who, according
to Greek mythology, was the
great-grandfather of Ares,
grandfather of Zeus and father of
Cronus. It has the third-largest
planetary radius and fourth-
largest planetary mass in the
Solar System.
NEPTUNE
• Neptune is the eighth and
farthest-known Solar planet
from the Sun. In the Solar
System, it is the fourth-
largest planet by diameter,
the third-most-massive
planet, and the densest
giant planet. It is 17 times
the mass of Earth, slightly
more massive than its near-
twin Uranus
PLUTO
• Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper
belt, a ring of bodies beyond the
orbit of Neptune. It was the first and
the largest Kuiper belt object to be
discovered. After Pluto was
discovered in 1930, it was declared
to be the ninth planet from the Sun.
EUROPA
• Europa, or Jupiter II, is the
smallest of the four Galilean
moons orbiting Jupiter, and the
sixth-closest to the planet of all
the 79 known moons of Jupiter.
It is also the sixth-largest moon
in the Solar System.
Lo
• lo, or Jupiter I, is the innermost and
third-largest of the four Galilean
moons of the planet Jupiter.
Slightly larger than the Moon, Io is
the fourth-largest moon in the
Solar System, has the highest
density of all of them, and has the
lowest amount of water of any
known astronomical object in the
Solar System.
GANYMEDE
• Ganymede, a satellite of Jupiter, is
the largest and most massive of the
Solar System's moons. The ninth-
largest object in the Solar System, it
is the largest without a substantial
atmosphere. It has a diameter of
5,268 km, making it 26% larger than
the planet Mercury by volume,
although it is only 45% as massive.
CALLISTO
• Callisto, or Jupiter IV, is the
second-largest moon of Jupiter,
after Ganymede. It is the third-
largest moon in the Solar System
after Ganymede and Saturn's
largest moon Titan, and the
largest object in the Solar System
that may not be properly
differentiated. Callisto was
discovered in 1610 by Galileo
Galilei.
TITAN
• Titan is the largest moon of
Saturn and the second-largest
natural satellite in the Solar
System. It is the only moon
known to have a dense
atmosphere, and the only
known body in space, other
than Earth, where clear
evidence of stable bodies of
surface liquid has been found.
COMET
• A comet is an icy, small Solar
System body that, when
passing close to the Sun, warms
and begins to release gases, a
process that is called
outgassing. This produces a
visible atmosphere or coma,
and sometimes also a tail.
ASTEROID
• An asteroid is a minor planet
of the inner Solar System.
Historically, these terms have
been applied to any
astronomical object orbiting
the Sun that did not resolve
into a disc in a telescope and
was not observed to have
characteristics of an active
comet such as a tail.
METEOROID
• A meteoroid is a small rocky
or metallic body in outer
space. Meteoroids are
significantly smaller than
asteroids, and range in size
from small grains to one-
meter-wide objects. Objects
smaller than this are classified
as micrometeoroids or space
dust.
NEBULA
• A nebula is an interstellar
cloud of dust, hydrogen,
helium and other ionized
gases. Originally, the term
was used to describe any
diffused astronomical
object, including galaxies
beyond the Milky Way.
BLACK HOLE
• A black hole is a region of
spacetime where gravity is
so strong that nothing—no
particles or even
electromagnetic radiation
such as light—can escape
from it. The theory of
general relativity predicts
that a sufficiently compact
mass can deform
spacetime to form a black
hole.
ELLIPTICAL
• An elliptical galaxy is a type of galaxy
with an approximately ellipsoidal
shape and a smooth, nearly
featureless image. They are one of
the three main classes of galaxy
described by Edwin Hubble in his
Hubble sequence and 1936 work
The Realm of the Nebulae, along
with spiral and lenticular galaxies.