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The Creation of The Milky Way
Vocabulary of the Milky Way
Stars
Deeper into Milky Way
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How long has The Milky Way been around?
13.6 Billion Years
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a large, dim, region that surrounds the entire galaxy
Halo
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How many stars are produced per year in the Milky Way?
7 stars per year
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Why is the Milky way called the Cannibal Galaxy?
During formation it swallowed up smaller galaxies
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What is the right way to go?
The Milky Way
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What is the Theory of how the Milky Way was formed
Big Bang Theory
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Extremely Valuable tool that can be used to map and study the galaxy
Spitzer Space telescope
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What is the Most common produced star in the Milky Way and explain how they look?
Red Dwarf Star dim, low mass, with a fraction of the brightness of our Sun
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How long is the Milky Way?
about 120,000 light years across
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Biggest Vacuum in the world
Space
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What is the name of the first stars to form the Milky Way
Global Clusters
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tightly packed group of stars within a larger formation
Central Bulge
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How do stars become global clusters?
The gravitational pull that attracts them together
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What is the name of the galaxy that the milky way is currently gobbling up and how far is it from the sun and galactic center?
Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy 25,000 light years from our Sun 45,000 light years from the galactic center
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Hotter than a stove and will burn you if too close
The Sun
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What does Galaxies Kuklos mean?
Milky Way
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Controls 6 of the Spiral arms (including the sun)
The Disk
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How many Stars could you see from the North and South hemisphere?
9,000 stars
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What is the Diameter , Circumference, and Thickness of the main disk?
Diameter: about 80,000 to 100,000 light-years Circumference: about 250,000 to 300,000 light-years Thickness:about 1,000 light-years
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Big white light at night
Moon
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What language is Galaxies Kuklos?
Greek
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highly energetic atomic nucleus or other particle travelling through space at a speed approaching that of light
Cosmic Ray
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Name the two large stars in the Milky Way?
Betelgeuse and Rigel
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Name 3 out of 6 of the Spiral Arms
Norma, Scutum-crux, Sagittarian, Orion, Perseus, Cygnus
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