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The Starry Messenger Vocabulary List Angular Diameter - the apparent size of celestial objects measured by angle in degrees. Apogee - that point in the orbit of the moon or a planet which is most distant from the earth. Aristotle - one of the world's greatest thinkers and scientific investigators from ancient Greece. Astronomy - one of the oldest sciences dealing with the study of heavenly bodies. Celestial objects - planets, moons, stars galaxies and all other heavenly bodies. Constellation - a group of fixed stars often described as forming an imaginary picture. Copernicus - a Polish mathematician and astronomer who proposed the Earth and planets move around the Sun. Cosmology - the theory of the nature of the Universe. Earthshine - light from the Sun reflected by the Earth that illuminates the moon. Fixed Stars - those stars and other heavenly bodies that maintain fixed patterns in the sky. Hypothesis - an unproved theory tentatively accepted to explain certain facts. Magnification - the apparent increase in size of an object viewed with a lens. Magnitude - the degree of brightness of a star. Mathematician - a scientist who deals with quantities and forms using numbers. Milky Way - a broad band of light across the heavens made up of stars and nebulae, our galaxy. Observation - the recording of facts for scientific study. Opposition - the situation where two heavenly bodies are at their greatest separation. Parallax - the apparent change in position of an object resulting from a change in the viewers position. Perigee - that point in the orbit of the moon or a planet nearest the Earth. Philosopher - a person who studies the processes governing the conduct and principles that regulate the Universe. Physicist - a scientist who deals with the properties, changes and interactions of matter and energy. Planets - a heavenly body that revolves about a star, once called wandering stars. Ptolemy - an ancient Greek mathematician and astronomer who founded a system of the Universe with the Earth at it's center and all the heavenly bodies revolving around it. Pythagoras - an ancient Greek philosopher who was responsible for many theories on the workings of the Universe. Refraction - the bending of light as it moves from one medium into another. Satellite - a small planet or object revolving around a larger one. Sidereal - relating to the stars or constellations. Spectacle - a lens used to assist vision. Sunspots - dark spots sometimes visible on the surface of the Sun. Terminator - the dividing line between the illuminated and non-illuminated part of a planet or moon. Wandering Stars - heavenly bodies that appear to move against the background of fixed stars, a planet.