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| Labyrinth | ancient series of spiraling circles created on the ground with stones |
| Bailey's Beads | streams of light looping out from the sun |
| constellations | images in the night sky formed by stars, like the Big Dipper |
| asteroids | faint objects in the sky that are not planets |
| SETI | an acronym for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence |
| exoplanet | name of a planet that is around a star other than the sun |
| eclipse | an occurrence when the moon is in a position to block the sun |
| totality | refers to the time when the sun is completely blocked by the moon during an eclipse. |
| chromosphere | a gaseous envelope that is part of the sun's atmosphere |
| Polaris | also known as the North Star, it is part of the Little Dipper |
| comet | sometimes known as a "shooting star" |
| corona | a circle or circles of light seen around the sun or the moon |
| prominences | an eruption of high density gas sometimes seen during an eclipse |
| Messier Objects | a set of astronomical objects first discovered by a French astronomer |
