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Letter	Answer	Hint
A		This spacecraft was meant to send 3 men to the moon, but an oxygen tank explosion halted the mission.
B		This nebula, at 1 degree Kelvin, is the coldest known naturally occuring place in the Universe.
C		This 3,000 mile (4,800 km) wide 'gap' between Saturn's A Ring and B Ring actually does contain ring-like materials.
D		This celestial phenomenon can be either a binary star or just 2 stars that, by chance, appear near each other in the sky.
E		This space shuttle, for a ship used by James Cook, replaced Challenger.
F		This solar phenomenon can affect the ionosphere and disrupt long-range radio communications.
G		This astronomer first discovered that Venus, like the Moon, had phases.
H		This dwarf planet is named for a Hawaiian goddess and its two moons are Hi'iaka and Namaka.
I		This shape of galaxy is one without an identifiable shape, such as the Cigar Galaxy.
J		This is another term for a gas giant: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
K		This German astronomer is very famous for making the Three Laws of Planetary Motion.
L		This constellation in the Zodiac lies between Cancer and Virgo, and it also has a 'minor' version of the constellation.
M		This is the term for a space rock that survived the atmosphere and is on the Earth's surface.

Letter	Answer	Hint
N		This is an explosion on a white dwarf caused by attracting hydrogen to a white dwarf star causing nuclear fusion.
O		This moon of Uranus is the 9th most massive moon in the Solar System and the 2nd of Uranus.
P		This ancient astronomer is famous for naming 48 constellations and developing the geocentric model.
Q		This phenomena is an extremely distant, active, galactic nucleus with a high red shift.
R		This protoplanetary nebula in Monoceros (HD 44179) is named because of its distinctive color and shape (which both begin with R).
S		This spiral galaxy, designated as M104, is named after a large hat it resembles.
T		This is a type of asteroids that orbit in gravitationally stable Lagrange points in a planet's orbit, trailing it or preceding it.
U		This constellation, the little bear, is home to Polaris and is also known as the Little Dipper.
V		This star in Lyra, with a magnitude of 0.03, is the fifth brightest star in the sky.
W		This galaxy, M51, interacts with companion galaxy NGC 5195, is named for its spiral shape.
X		This is a part of the electromagnetic spectrum that has sources such as neutron stars and black holes.
Y		This type of star is a main-sequence star of spectral type G, luminosity type V, such as the Sun.
Z		This is the term for the place in the sky directly overhead of the observer.

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