| 1 | variable stars | | _____ | Milky Way and Andromeda are examples |
| 2 | period-luminosity relationship | | _____ | no arms, smooth, called "E" or"E-type" |
| 3 | binary stars | | _____ | many star clusters found here, dark nebulae limit vision here |
| 4 | the Sun | | _____ | spiral local group galaxy in which the Sun resides |
| 5 | Milky Way Galaxy | | _____ | our nearest galactic neighbor, called M31 and NGC224 |
| 6 | spiral galaxy | | _____ | correlation between luminosity and pulsation |
| 7 | galactic bulge | | _____ | a bar of material passes through the galactic center |
| 8 | irregular galaxy | | _____ | luminosity changes with time, some erratically others regularly |
| 9 | Andromeda Galaxy | | _____ | without rotational symmetry, may be young and ejecting bubbles of gas |
| 10 | quasar | | _____ | English siblings who discovered & studied galaxies |
| 11 | nebulae | | _____ | located in our galaxy's suburbs, 30,000 ly from center |
| 12 | barred - spiral galaxy | | _____ | two stars orbiting around their center of mass held by gravitational attraction |
| 13 | Local Group | | _____ | a cluster of galaxies in which our solar system belongs |
| 14 | galactic disk | | _____ | huge cloud of gas and dust in intergalactic space |
| 15 | W. & C. Herschel | | _____ | region of galaxy far above and below center |
| 16 | galactic halo | | _____ | American astronomer who classified the galaxies |
| 17 | elliptical galaxy | | _____ | known as a QSO, star-sized energy source with excess UV radiation |
| 18 | E. Hubble | | _____ | visible light cannot penetrate clouds here |