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Space travel. Shooting star. A shooting star is a meteor, a piece of rock from space that produces a bright light when it travels through Earth's atmosphere. I saw a shooting star last night.

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Comet. A comet is an object that moves around the sun. It is rare to see a comet, but they look like bright lines in the night sky.

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Solar system. The solar system is the Sun and the group of planets that moves

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around it. We have nine planets in our solar system. Space station. A space

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station is a vehicle in which people can travel around the Earth. Astronauts do

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scientific tests on the International Space Station. Constellation. A

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constellation is a group of stars that form a pattern and have been given a

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name. My favorite constellation is the Big Dipper, also known as Ursa Major. Space Shuttle. A space

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shuttle is a vehicle in which people travel into space and back again. Astronauts use the space

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shuttle to bring new equipment to the space station. Telescope. A telescope is a device that

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makes objects that are far away look closer and larger. I saw Saturn through my telescope last

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night. Astronaut. An astronaut is a person who has been trained for traveling in space.

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Mae Jemison was the first black woman astronaut in space. Do you want to travel to outer space?