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What are galaxies ?

1 . - Stars move around the center of their ____________________ in the same way that planets orbit a star .

2 . - Galaxies differ in size , age , and ____________________ .

3 . - A whirlpool - shaped galaxy is a ____________________ galaxy , a football - shaped galaxy is an ____________________ galaxy , an one with no regular shape is called an ____________________ galaxy .

4 . - Our home - galaxy , the Milky Way , is a ____________________ galaxy .

What was the big bang ?

5 . - Some of the light produced by the heated gases of stars is ____________________ by the star's atmosphere .

6 . - The light absorbed by a star's atmosphere drops out of its light spectrum , forming dark ____________________ ____________________ .

7 . - When a galaxy is moving toward Earth , the light shining from that galaxy shifts toward the ____________________ end of the spectrum .

8 . - When a galaxy is moving away from Earth , the light shining from that galaxy shifts toward the ____________________ end of the spectrum .