Stars
The brightest star in the night sky
What is Sirius?
Unit used to measure great distances, such as the distances between the stars
What is a light year?
Tremendous bursts of energy caused by sudden changes in the sun's magnetic field
What are solar flares?
The three galaxies closest to ours
What is Sagittarius, the dwarf galaxy, and large and small magellanic clouds?
The familiar shape within the constellation Ursa Major which contains the pointers
What is the big dipper?
The closest star to Earth BESIDES our sun
What is Proxement Centauri
The distance of a light year
What is 5.9 trillion miles?
A faint "wind" of high-speed gas particles that stream into space from the the sun's corona
What are solar winds
A star system containing millions to billions of stars
What is a galaxy?
The brightest star in the constellation Perseus
What is Algol?
The star often confused with the planet Mars because of its brightness and reddish color
What is Antares?
The distance of how far away the sun is from the earth
What is 93 million miles?
The closest star to the Earth
What is the sun?
The galaxy we live in
What is the Milkyway?
A group of stars which seems to outline the shape of a person, an animal, or something else
What is a constellation?
The brightest star in the constellation Perseus
What is Algol?
Huge loops of cooler gases erupting thousands of miles from the chromosphere that are suspended in space by the sun's magnetic field
What are solar prominences
A high speed particles that travel outwards from holes in the sun's corona and beats upon the earth's upper atmoshpre
What is a solar wind?
The cluster of about 40 galaxies which we find Earth
What is the Local Group?
The closest star to Earth BESIDES our sun
What is Proxima Centauri?
Tremendous bursts of energy caused by sudden changes in the sun's magnetic field
What are solar flares?
Streams of gas erupting from the chromosphere and returning in a looplike fashion⚬
What are solar prominences?