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The Sun
Galaxies
Constellations
Stars
Miscellaneous
100
Dark patches on the sun's photosphere
What are sunspots?
100
A star system containing from millions to billions of stars.
What is a galaxy?
100
The dragon.
What is Draco?
100
The brightest star in the night sky
What is Sirius?
100
An area that contains no air
What is a vacuum?
200
The hottest region of the sun
What is the core?
200
The 3 basic types of galaxies.
What are barred, spiral and elliptical?
200
The constellation that looks like an "M" or "W"
What is Cassiopeia?
200
A pair of stars that travel together and rotate around each other as the moon does the earth
What is a binary star?
200
The force that resists motion
What is friction?
300
The hottest region of the sun's atmosphere.
What is the corona?
300
Spiral arms attached to a straight "bar" that runs through a galaxy
What are barred spirals?
300
The Princess chained to a rock.
What is Andromeda?
300
The actual explosion of a star
What is supernova?
300
Large clouds of gas and dust floating around in space.
What are nebulae?
400
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 wind?
400
The Milky Way is this type of galaxy.
What is a spiral galaxy?
400
Familiar shape within the constellation Ursa Major which contains the pointer stars.
What is the Big Dipper?
400
The brightest star in the constellation Leo
What is Regulus?
400
The imaginary line that stretches from pole to pole
What is the axis of rotation?
500
Streams of gas erupting from the chromosphere and returning in looplike fashion.
What is solar prominence?
500
The cluster with about 40 galaxies in which we find the Earth.
What is the Local Group.
500
The Constellation that makes up a cross.
What is the Southern Cross?
500
The brightest star in the constellation Perseus.
What is Algol?
500
The distance the Earth is from the sun
What is 93 million miles?