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Baseline:
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The coldness between two or more telescopes
those are working together as a solitary instrument
to observe celestial objects. The wider the
baseline, the better the resolving power.
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Binary Star System:
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A system of two stars orbiting around a ordinary
center of mass that are jump together by their
joint gravitational attraction.
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Bolide:
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Large, luminous meteors that enter the Earth’s
atmosphere. Friction amid a fast-moving meteor
and Earth’s air molecules produce tremendous
heat that causes the meteor to heat up, glow,
and perhaps disintegrate. In a few cases,
the meteor literally explodes, send-off a
visible cloud that dissipates slowly.
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Bulge:
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The spherical arrangement at the center of
a spiral galaxy that is made up chiefly of
old stars, gas, and dust. The Milky Way’s
bulge is concerning 15,000 light-years across.
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