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The band of color produced when white light passes through a prism.
What is a SPECTRUM 
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A large, reddish star late in its life cycle.
What is a RED GIANT.
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A collection of stars, dust, and gas bound together by gravity. 
What is a GALAXY.
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A star that has collapsed under gravity to the point that the electrons and protons have smashed together to form neutrons.
What is a NEUTRON STAR.
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Our sun is considered what type of star.
What is a MAIN SEQUENCE STAR.
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The brightness of a star as seen from the Earth.
What is APPARENT MAGNITUDE.
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A small, hot dim star that is the leftover center of an old star.
What is a WHITE DWARF. 
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A large cloud of dust and gas in interstellar space; a region in space where stars are born or where stars explode at the end of their lives. 
What is a NEBULA.
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A rapidly spinning neutron star that emits rapid pulses of radio and optical energy.
What is a PULSAR.
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A star begins as a ball of gas and dust pulled together by...
What is GRAVITY.
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The brightness that a star would have a distance of 32.6 light years from Earth.
What is ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDE.
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Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, a graph that shows the relationship between a star's surface temperature and absolute magnitude.  
What is the H-R DIAGRAM. 
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A tight group of stars that looks like a ball and contains up to one million stars. 
What is a GLOBULAR CLUSTER.
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An object so massive and dense that even light cannot escape its gravity. 
What is a BLACK HOLE.
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The Milky Way galaxy is what type.
What is a Spiral Galaxy. 
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The distance that light travels in one year; about 9.5 trillion kilometers.
What is a LIGHT-YEAR.
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The location on the H-R diagram where most stars live. 
What is the MAIN SEQUENCE. 
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A group of stars that are close together relative to surrounding stars.
What is a OPEN CLUSTER.
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How many earths would fit inside of the sun?
What is 1 MILLION or What is 1.3 MILLION
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When is the sun theorized to die. 
What is 5 BILLION YEARS from now.
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An apparent shift in the position of an object when viewed from different locations.
What is a PARALLAX.
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A gigantic explosion in which a massive star collapses and throws its outer layer into space. 
What is a supernova. 
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A very luminous, star like object that generates energy at a high rate; quasars are thought to be the most distant objects in the universe. 
What is a QUASAR. 
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Who discovered sun spots. 
Who is GALILEO. 
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What is the outer shell of the sun called.
What is the CORONA.
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