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



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