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How many Earths can fit in the Sun?
What is around a million
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This was the name of the Roman and Greek major sun god.
What is Apollo
100
What will the Sun become after it exits its main sequence phase?
What is a red giant
100
The visible part of the Sun's atmosphere is called the __________
What is the photosphere
100
What is the name of the current "North Star"?
What is Polaris
200
Surface temperatures of the Sun are around this temperature
What is 5,000 °C
200
What monument in England was built to plot the course of the Sun over the year?
What is Stonehenge
200
What is the sequence that stars of the Sun's size go through
What is formation, main sequence, red giant, white dwarf
200
Which is hotter; the Sun's surface or atmosphere?
What is the atmosphere
200
Name six of the twelve zodiac signs
What are Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagitarius, and Capricorn
300
The Sun contains this percentage of the mass of the entire Solar System (within .1%)
What is 99.86%
300
Who discovered sunspots?
Who was Galileo
300
Why will the Sun not become a supernova?
What is because it is not massive enough
300
This part of the Sun's atmosphere emits a reddish glow and is only seen through total solar eclipses.
What is the chromosphere
300
What are the names of the two ice giants in our Solar System
What are Uranus and Neptune
400
How long does it take the Sun to complete one revolution around the galactic core?
What is around 250 million years
400
This man developed one of the first heliocentric models in 1543.
Who was Nicolas Copernicus
400
This is how the Sun and the rest of the Solar System formed
What is the solar nebula collapsed
400
The core is what percentage of the radius of the Sun? (within 3%)
What is 24%
400
What is the second closest star to the Earth?
What is Proxima Centauri/Alpha Centauri C
500
The Sun is ______ times more massive than the Earth (within 10,000)
What is 333,000
500
How old is the Sun (within .1 billion years)
What is around 4.5 billion years
500
The Sun will become this after red giant phase
What is a white dwarf
500
The photosphere is primarily made up of what two elements?
What are hydrogen and helium
500
What two things are Saturn's rings mainly composed of?
What are water ice and rock
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