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What is the moon phase where we see the whole reflected side of the moon?
Full moon
What is the corona
What is the ridge
The longest mountain range on Earth is the mid-oceanic
What is Polaris
The closest star to the celestial South Pole, barely visible to the naked eye.
What is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything, according to the galactic supercomputer Deep Thought?
42
What are the four major moon phases?
(Answer: New Moon, First Quarter, Full Moon, Last Quarter)
How big would Earth be compared to the sun if the sun were a basketball?
What is Pangaea
The supercontinent that existed millions of years ago, meaning "all Earth".
What are Castor and Pollux?
The two brightest stars in Gemini.
This is the name for our galaxy.
The milky way
What lunar phase occurs during a solar eclipse?
New moon
What is hydrogen?
Answer: The sun is a star, and this is the element that makes up 74% of its mass
What is the troposphere?
The lowest layer of the atmosphere, where most weather occurs.
What is a white dwarf?
After it becomes a red giant, our sun will shed its layers and shrink to this type of star.
What happens when two galaxies collide?
They generally pass through each other, though their shapes are distorted by gravity. Stars rarely collide because of the immense distances between them.
Why is there no weather on the moon?
(Answer: It has no atmosphere)
What is nuclear fusion?
This process, which occurs in the sun's core, is what releases energy and involves hydrogen atoms fusing to form helium.
What is Voyager
The spacecraft that took a "family portrait" of the planets in 1990, including Earth.
What is Bellatrix
The third brightest star in Orion and also the name of a Harry Potter villain.
What causes the spectacular color in an emission nebula, such as the Orion Nebula?
a cloud of ionized gas glowing as electrons recombine with the atoms
True or False: The Moon revolves around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.
True
What is an orbit
The path the sun appears to take across the sky each day.
What is January
Earth is closest to the sun during this winter month.
What is Ursa Major
The Big Dipper is part of this constellation.
What are Cepheid variables?
The under-calculation of the universe's size by about half was an error caused by a calibration mistake related to these specific stars.