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What is the role of the Hubble space telescope

What is to take images of space outside of earth's atmosphere

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What is the main role of constellations

What is help navigate the land and sea

100

What is the difference between a stars apparent magnitude, and its absolute magnitude

What is apparent is how bright it appears from earth while absolute is how bright the star actually is

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What is a lightyear?

What is a measure of distance. The distance light can travel in a year

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About how long does it take for light to travel from the sun to the earth?

What is approximately 8 minutes

200

What is the nearest star to earth? Besides the sun

What is Proxima Centauri

200

How do stars move?

They orbit around the galaxy they are in. Likely held in by gravity.

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Which stars tend to be hotter, and which tend to be cooler

What is large stars tend to burn hotter and quicker, smaller burn cooler and for longer

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Supergiant

A star with a diameter more than 100 times the sun

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Largest type of galaxies

What are elliptical galaxies

300

The dream team that is never up to a bad scheme who wear jeans that look super lean while eating a can of beans from a bowl they recently cleaned(They are good at baseball)

Cubs who are Chicago

300

Red Shift

The tendency of light waves to stretch as they travel through space, making them appear more red.

300

How do stars 1/10 the sun die?

What is they slowly burn out.

300

Science that explains how the universe began and how it has changed over time

What is cosmology

300

When two stars appear close an actually revolve around one another

What are binary stars

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What is a cepheid variable?

What is a star whose brightness changes as it expands and contracts

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Parallax

Changes in position of a distant object as one’s viewing position changes

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What did the big bang correctly predict that relates to red shift?

What is that the universe is constantly expanding and stretching

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Explain how we know black holes exist

What is, we can not see them, but we can see their effects on space around them

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Why did people assume the universe was older when they found out that light does not travel instantly?

What is, it had to take time for the light from far away to make it to the earth

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Explain what dark matter is

What is a hypothetical material that has mass, but is  not currently observable. Helps explain the lack of mass seen in the galaxy

500

How do stars about the size of the sun die?

What is they start burning helium instead, Expand and become a red giant. collapse and become a white dwarf, cools and becomes a black dwarf

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Summarize the time slowed by gravity theory

What is gravity can affect how time passes. Intense amounts of gravity can slow down time

500

What is the issue with the light created in transit theory?

What is objects further than 7,000 lightyears away can not come from real events

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How do stars 8 times larger than the sun die?

What is they get so hot they explode into a supernova, this can usually leave behind a white dwarf, that white dwarf will become a neutron star, or a black hole based on its mass

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