The Sun
What is the innermost layer of the Sun?
The core
What is the temperature of sunspots, and the plasma around them?
Sunspots: 4000C
Plasma around them: 6000C
When was the Solar System formed?
4.6 to 5 billion years ago
This planet has a unique orientation, with an axis tilted so far toward its orbital plane that it looks like it is rolling on its side.
Uranus
Hydrogen and Helium
What is the Latin translation of aurora?
Dawn or Light
What formed the "Gas Giants"?
Materials such as ice, and gas.
Despite receiving almost no solar energy, this planet somehow radiates three times more energy than it receives.
Neptune
Since what year has SOHO been viewing the Sun?
1995
This letter represents the strongest category of solar flare
X-class
How does the moon affect daily life? (Name two things it affects)
Light and Tides
This object is nicknamed a "dirty snowball" and develops a glowing tail millions of kilometers long when it falls toward the Sun
Comet
The temperature of the core of the sun is at least
1.5 million degrees celsius
This solar feature originates at the surface, specifically where the magnetic field breaks through to interact with both the chromosphere and the corona.
Solar flares
What was the "glue" that was believed to have been used to create the outer planets?
Ice
While there are millions of icy objects drifting in the outer disk ring, this is the exact, specific number of bodies large enough to be officially classified as Minor Planets.
25
SOHO stands for
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
Coronal Mass Ejections occur when stressed magnetic flux ropes snap and violently realign through this specific physical process
Magnetic reconnection
List everything mentioned that asteroid belt analysis can help humans find.
Finding Earth-like planets in other solar systems, determining the age of asteroids, solar systems, and even the Earth.
This is the specific term used only when a space rock successfully survives the friction of the atmosphere and actually strikes the Earth's surface
Meteorite