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Star is a huge sphere of very hot, glowing gas. Stars produce their own light and energy
by a process called nuclear fusion.
Asteroid a small rocky body orbiting the sun. Large numbers of these, ranging in size
from nearly 600 miles (1,000 km) across (Ceres) to dust particles, are found in the asteroid belt
especially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, though some have more eccentric orbits, and
a few pass close to the earth or enter the atmosphere as meteors.
Galaxies are sprawling space systems composed of dust, gas, and countless stars. The
number of galaxies cannot be counted the observable universe alone may contain 100 billion.
Some of these distant systems are similar to our own Milky Way galaxy, while others are quite
different.