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1. Stars in the Northern Hemisphere rotate around what star?

2.
Millions to hundreds of millions of older stars clumped closely together (Mostly red giants and dwarfs) especially near the center of the cluster

3.
Stars that are paired or gravitationally linked together. One ma revolve around the other

4.
Have flat disks, spiral arms, a central bulge, and a surrounding halo. They're fairly large with lots of gas and younger stars in their arms, but older stars and little gas in their halos and central bulges

5.
'The Big Bear

6.
The apparent shift that a star has over a period of time. The closer the object, the more it will shift position in the sky

7. Triangulum Emission Darren Nebula

8.
'The Dragon'

9. Light Year

10.
Have a disk but no arms and have little or no excess gas and dust

11.
-Towards the end of the star's life
-They expand to 9 times their normal size
-They start to fuse carbon, neon, silicon, and oxygen

12. Johann Bayer assigned each star with what lowercase letter?

13.
'The Scorpion

14. Dark Matter

15. The Red Rectangle Nebula

16.
Have a distorted shape, and have lots of gas and dust

17. What is Polaris aligned with?

18.
A system of millions or billions of stars, together with gases and dust, held together by gravitational attraction; come in different sizes

19.
A Spiral Galaxy with a central bar-shaped structure composed of stars. The Milky Way is an example of this

20.
'The Hunter'

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Have a spherical or football shape and range from very small to giant. They have very little gas or dust and have mostly old stars

22.
'The Kneeler'

23.
'The Swan'

24.
North Star

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'The Chained Princess'

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