Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – what iT has to say about a few things!

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A glossary of intergalactic words

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say about…

Stars: A star is a very very very BIG and really BRIGHT ball of burning gases suspended in space. Kind of like a humungoss disco ball!
Constellations: A constellation is a picture or pattern made up of stars I like to think of it as a giant dot-to-dot in the sky.

Suns: A sun is the star (if you don't know what a star is then you have obviously not been listening!) that is nearest to a planet. The planet is kept close to its Sun by gravity. Some Suns are shared by many different planets (ahhhhhhhhhhhh).

Gravity: Gravity is the force that holds planets in orbit, it is also the force that stops things from staying tin the air for very long. It is the reason why humans cannot walk on clouds, easily fly whilst thinking about doing it; and the reason not to jump out of third floor buildings.

Planets: A planet is a huge (or sometimes small, but only occasionally) sphere of rock or gas with changing weather (i.e. drizzle, light rain, heavy rain, bucket loads of rain, monsoon, sleet, blizzard, hurricane!) that is orbiting one or more suns.

Years: A yeah is the amount of time it takes for a planet to whizzzzzz its way around its closest star.

Galaxys: A Galaxy is a group of stars held together by the gravitational force created by each. (It is also a lovely brand of chocolate found on the planet Earth)

Light-years: A light-year is a really really really really really really long way because it is the distance that light travels in one Earth year, and light travels extremely fast.

Moons: A moon is a large asteroid (massive lump of rock to you and me!) that is caught in the gravitational orbit of a planet.

Meteorites: A meteorite is an asteroid (if you don't know what this is then you are clearly not that interested and might as well not waste any more time looking) that has entered a planet's atmosphere, in other words a moon that missed.

Universe(s): The universe is all the stars, planets, moons, asteroids et cetera. And the infinite space in-between. Nobody is exactly sure how big it actually is because it it infinite and anything that is infinite is hugely, enormously, massively, immeasurably big!

Big Bang: The Big Bang is the scientific explanation of how the universe was created (I personally feel that calling it the Big Bang is underestimating the matter somewhat and that The GIGANTIC EXPLOSION would be more appropriate!)

I hope that this has been of some help and deeply apologise if it has not.

A/N: so what'd you think? Good? Bad? Unbearable? Let me know but don't be too harsh. Anyway all the scientific stuff is for real so I hope that this has been an enjoyable educational experience if that is even possible. Please review and I may add some of the HHGG views on certain planets. Tee Hee. Love you all, hugs and stuff Steph!

Mwaaaaaaaah (kisses not evil laughing, I sometimes get them confused!)

P.S. if you have any requests for HHGG explanations just say! I'd be happy to help if I can. : )