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Our Universe!
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ME!
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My House
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Cambridge
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Canada
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North America
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Earth
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Solar System The Sun 8 planets (pluto – dwarf planet)
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62 moons thousands of asteroids, comets, meteorids, space rocks and bits of space dust;
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Milky Way Galaxy Huge city of stars; Very large in size – travelling at the speed of light (300 000 000 m/sec) it would take 100 000 years to travel across it; 100 000 million stars; Gets its name from the lovely ribbon of light that forms across the night sky;
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Local Group of Galaxies Group of galaxies that contains approximately 20 bright galaxies and 30 galaxies in total; Largest galaxies in the local group are spirals Andromeda and Milky way
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The Universe Billions of galaxies; Galaxies are clumped together in clusters; Farthest radio signals from a galaxy came from 12 billion light-years away; Scientists believe the universe stretches out far beyond what we can see; Theory – parts of the universe may look very different from ours and may even have different laws of nature;
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