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



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