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



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