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Astronomy
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Direction around the horizon from due north, measured clockwise in degrees.
What is Azimuth?
100
A large, high-pressure storm on Jupiter.
What is the Great Red Spot?
100
The explosion of a star.
What is a Supernova?
100
The name given to the event thought to mark the birth of the universe.
What is the Big Bang?
100
A galaxy in which stars are forming at an unusually high rate.
What is a Starburst Galaxy?
200
The process by which one atomic nucleus breaks into two smaller nuclei.
What is Fission?
200
A flash of light caused when a particle from space burns up in our atmosphere.
What is a Meteor?
200
Blotches on the surface of the Sun that appear darker than surrounding regions.
What is a Sunspot?
200
One of the four fundamental forces; it is the force that dominates on large scales.
What is Gravity?
200
A relatively small, icy object that orbits a star.
What is a Comet?
300
A spherically shaped bundle of up to a million or more stars.
What is Globular Cluster?
300
A rock from space that lands on Earth.
What is a Meteorite?
300
A stream of charged particles ejected from the Sun.
What is Solar Wind?
300
The total power output of an object, usually measured in watts.
What is Luminosity?
300
An object that orbits the Sun and is massive enough for its gravity to have made it nearly round in shape.
What is a Dwarf Planet?
400
The tenuous uppermost layer of the Sun’s atmosphere.
What is Corona?
400
The compact corpse of a high mass star left over after a supernova.
What is a Neutron Star?
400
A measure of the amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
400
A star system that contains two stars.
What is a Binary Star System?
400
The set of phases in which more and more of the visible face of the Moon is illuminated.
What is Waxing?
500
The dusty atmosphere of a comet.
What is Coma?
500
The hot, compact corpses of low mass stars.
What is a White Dwarf?
500
The prominent line of points running from the upper left to the lower right on an H-R diagram.
What is Main Sequence?
500
A relatively small and rocky object that orbits a star.
What is an Asteroid?
500
A bottomless pit in spacetime.
What is a Black Hole?