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- moon
- gibbous/crescent
- uranus- planet William Herschel discovered in 1781
- ceres- largest body in the asteroid belt, nearest dwarf planet to the sun
- vesta- brightest asteroid (as seen from Earth), fourth asteroid to be discovered
- centaur- body with an orbit between those of Jupiter and Neptune
- trojan- asteroid that hangs out in the L5 Lagrange point of Jupiter's orbit
- dawn- spacecraft that visited Ceres in 2015
- juno- asteroid discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding in 1804
- Piazzi- Italian priest who discovered Ceres in 1801
- dactyl- name of the moon that orbits the asteroid Ida
- rigel- massive blue supergiant in Orion's foot
- thuban- star in the constellation Draconis that used to be the north pole star, five thousand years ago
- altair- star in Aquila that's spinning almost fast enough to tear itself apart
- betelgeuse- red giant in Orion's shoulder
- hanuman- Rama's devoted monkey companion in the Ramayana.
- mercury- planet that orbits the sun once every 88 days, planet with the smallest axial tilt
- corona- aura of plasma that surrounds the sun
- core- part of the sun where nuclear fusion takes place
- helium- element that's forged from two hydrogen atoms during nuclear fusion
- solar maximum- high point in the sun's 11-year cycle of activity
- venus- planet where you might worry about sulfuric acid storms wrecking your paint job
- declination- term for the angle of an object north or south of the celestial equator
- zenith- term for the point in the sky directly above an observer's head
- inclination- term for the degree of tilt of an orbit from its reference plane
- perihelion- point in a Solar System body's orbit when it comes closest to the sun
- aphelion- point in a Solar System body's orbit when it is farthest from the sun
- right ascension
- retrograde- orbit in the opposite direction of the spin of the body being orbited
- au- average distance between the Earth and the Sun
- lockyer- astronomer who discovered helium by observing the Sun
- red giant- look up the kind of star that the Sun will eventually become
- mars- largest dust storms in the Solar System
- phobos- inner moon
- stickney- largest crater on Phobos
- limtoc- large crater in the middle of Stickney
- sojourner- rover that landed on Mars in 1997
- curiosity- rover that landed on Mars in 2012
- mount sharp- mountain that Curiosity landed next to
- deimos- outer moon
- pluto- trans-Neptunian object that Neil deGrasse Tyson built a career out of murdering, place in the Solar System where you can find Cthulhu Macula
- kuiper belt- disc of small bodies that lie outside the orbit of Neptune
- hydra- Pluto's second-largest moon
- orcus- minor planet (perhaps a dwarf planet) discovered by Michael Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David Rabinowitz in 2004
- vanth- name of Orcus's moon
- tombaugh- astronomer who discovered Pluto
- johannes kepler
- enceladus- body in the Solar System with the highest albedo
- io- moon of Jupiter that helped Ole Rømer calculate the speed of
- triton- moon of Neptune with an almost perfectly circular orbit
- callisto- moon with giant craters named Valhalla and Asgard
- miranda- moon where Verona Rupes, the Solar System's largest cliff, is found
- umbriel- darkest, spookiest moon of Uranus
- titan- moon of Saturn with a thick nitrogen-rich atmosphere
- iapetus- look up the moon of Saturn that features a large dark area named Cassini Regio
- ganymede- largest moon
- europa- smoothest moon
- sagittarius- constellation that contains the center of the Milky Way
- cancer- constellation that contains M44, the "Beehive Cluster
- centaurus- constellation that contains the Southern Cross, constellation that contains the nearest star to the Solar System
- taurus- constellation that contains the Crab Nebula
- ursa minor- constellation that contains the North Star
- aquarius- constellation that contains TRAPPIST-1 and its exoplanets
- andromeda- constellation that contains the andromeda
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