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100
The value of the brightness of a star as it is viewed from Earth
What is the apparent magnitude?
100
Saturn's outermost major moon, which orbits in the opposite direction of most other moons
What is the moon Phoebe?
100
Stars that are part of the Summer Triangle
What is Altair?
100
The first object to be classified as an asteroid
What is Ceres?
100
The distance between two objects on the celestial sphere
What is an angle?
100
The light-colored streaks surrounding a lunar crater
What are rays?
100
A type of star group that travels outside the boundaries of the Milky Way in an unusual orbit around the Galaxy's center
What is a globular cluster?
200
A chunk of space debris that has reached Earth's surface
What is a meteorite?
200
The evolutionary idea that claims the solar system was formed from a cloud of dust (which we know to be untrue)
What is the nebular hypothesis?
200
The satellite around Neptune that experiences the coldest known temperatures in the solar system
What is Triton?
200
This planet travels rapidly through its orbit
What is Mercury?
200
Aristotle's view of the universe
What is geocentric?
200
What is Orion?
200
A partial eclipse that occurs when the moon is too small to cover the sun entirely, leaving a ring of light around the moon
What is an annular or solar eclipse?
300
He proposed a system in which Earth and all the other planets orbit the sun
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
300
Daily Double
The orbital speed decreases
What is the Earth's speed when it approaches aphelion?
300
The rapidly rotating neutron star that emits directional beems of radio waves
What is a pulsar star?
300
The right triangle was drawn with the sun (lower left), the earth (lower right), and a star (top). This angle represents the angle at the star.
What is the Stellar Parallax?
300
Two groups of asteroids that travel in Jupiter's orbit
What are the Trojan asteroids?
300
The visible part of the sun
What is the photosphere?
300
The outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere
What is the corona?
400
The number of planets known to the ancient astronomers
What are five planets?
400
The primary factor that determines the brightness of average stars in the main sequence
What is temperature?
400
The suns transition region studied only by using space-based solar observations
What is the release of ultraviolet radiation?
400
A star-like object believed to be made up of a large black hole surrounded by a glowing ring of gas
What is a quasar?
400
A spiral and irregular galaxy commonly containing large clouds and dust
What is a Nebulae?
400
A feature of lenticular galaxies that can help distinguish them from spiral galaxies
What is a solid disk?
400
A group of stars that are used to form a picture of represent an object
What is an asterism?
500
Star located at the celestial pole
What is Polaris?
500
The smallest type of structure formed by a group of galaxies
What is a cluster?
500
The type of star that is cool, small, and dim
What is a red dwarf star?
500
The only planet discovered mathematically before it was seen
What is Neptune?
500
The phase in which the moon as a bulging shape and is growing larger
What is the waxing gibbous?
500
Daily Double:
This constellation contains the star Alderamin
What is the Taurus constellation
500
The largest known mountain in the solar system
What is Olympus Mons
600
Jupiter's moon that is most volcanically active body in the solar system
What is Io?
600
This property of a planet's orbit adds to Kepler's third law relate to the planet's average distance from the sun
What is a period?
600
A trail of space debris left by a comet
What is a comet tail?
600
The astronomical distance measurement that is based directly on the speed of light
What is a light year?
600
The loose, asymmetrical clump that contains tens, hundreds, or thousands of stars
What is an open cluster?
600
Moons that keep a planet's rings in place
What are Shepherd moons?
600
A comet that takes 150 years to complete one orbit
What is a short-period comet?
700
An object so massive and dense that not even light can escape its gravity
What is a black hole?
700
A constellation containing the Teapot asterism
What is the constellation Sagittarius?
700
The imaginary band in the sky containing the moon and planets
What is the Zodiac band?
700
A planet that is now called a dwarf planet because it is near objects that are not controlled by its gravity
What is Pluto?
700
This movement is evidence that indicates that the sun is spinning
What are sunspots?
700
An extremely bright meteor that explodes in midair
What is a bolide?
700
The largest planet in our solar system
What is Jupiter?
800
A moon around Mars that orbits closer to the planet that moves more quickly
What is Phobos?
800
A star that is found if you trace a line near Orion's belt
What is Sirius?
800
The central portion of a comet
What is the nucleus of the comet?
800
The brightest summer star
What is the star Vega?
800
The only planet that takes longer to rotate on its axis than to orbit the sun
What is Venus?
800
This term describes the composition of interplanetary space
What is a vacuum?
800
A star that is always above the horizon at a particular latitude
What is a circumpolar star?
900
This diagram is used to classify stars
What is the Hertzsprung-Russel diagram?
900
Characteristics that Uranus and Venus have in common
What are planets with "backwards" rotation?
900
Because the sun, moon, and all the planets cannot orbit the earth
What is why the gravity of the sun would cause the planets to orbit the sun
900
*FINAL JEOPARDY*
Jesus was crucified during a full moon, it is said there was darkness for 3 hours during this time, this full moon represents this eclipse.
What is a total lunar eclipse?
900
This is made of metal or rock
What is an asteroid?
900
A useful for astronomers to view Earth
What is a celestial sphere?
900
Halley's comet completes one orbit every 76 Earth years. Uranus requires 84 Earth years to complete an orbit. knowing this, this one is the closest the sun and will orbit more quickly.
What is Halley's comet?