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The part of the sun's atmosphere closest to its surface.
What is the chromosphere?
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The stars that outline a picture in the sky.
What is a constellation?
100
The dragon.
What is Draco?
100
A star system containing millions to billions of stars.
What is a galaxy?
100
Streams of gas erupting from the chromosphere and returning in looplike fashion.
What is a solar prominence?
200
The hottest region of the sun's atmosphere.
What is the corona?
200
The brightest star in the constellation Leo.
What is Polaris?
200
The "queen" shaped as a w or upside down m.
What is Cassiopeia?
200
The cluster with about 40 galaxies in which we find Earth.
What is the Local Group?
200
The hottest region of the sun.
What is the core?
300
The distance of the sun from the earth.
What is 93 million miles?
300
The brightest star in the night sky.
What is Sirius?
300
The "swan."
What is Cygnus?
300
A pair of stars that travel together and rotate around each other as the moon does the earth.
What is a binary star?
300
The force that resists motion.
What is friction?
400
The part of the sun visible only during a solar eclipse.
What is the corona or chromosphere?
400
The actual explosion of a star.
What is a supernova?
400
An area that contains no air.
What is a vacuum?
400
Spiral arms attached to a straigh "bar" that runs through a galaxy.
What is barred spirals?
500
A high- speed stream of particles that travels outward from holes in the sun's corona and beats upon the earth's upper atmosphere.
What is solar winds?
500
The brightest star in h constellation Perseus.
What is Algol?
500
The pole star.
What is Polaris?
500
Large clouds of gas and dust floating around in space.
What is nebulae?
500
The three basic types of galaxy shapes.
What is spiral, elliptical, and irregular?
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