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resembles a swan
What is the constellation Cygnus?
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Canis Major
What is the brightest star in the heavens?
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solar system
What is the sun and all of the heavenly bodies that orbit it?
100
solar eclipse
What is when the photosphere is blocked by the sun?
100
apparent magnitude
What is the brightness of a star as it appears to an observer on the earth?
200
resembles twin brothers holding hands
What is the constellation Gemini?
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Vega
What is the brightest summer star?
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the center of the sun
What is the core?
200
solar flares
What are tremendous bursts of energy by spicules?
200
inverse square law
What is "the brightness of a star varies inversely as the square of the distance form the star"?
300
resembles a dragon
What is the constellation Draco?
300
astrology
What is the superstitious religion that places its faith in the constellations of the zodiac?
300
photosphere
What is the sphere of light?
300
corona
What is a huge, hot blanket of vapor surrounding the chromosphere?
300
surface temperature and size
What are the 2 things a star's absolute magnitude depends on?
400
Orion
What is the brightest of all constellations?
400
resembles a creature wqith the body of a horse and the chest, arms and the head of a man
What is Centaurus?
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sunspots
What is thousands of super-granules that make up the photosphere's dark patches?
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93,000,000
What is the distance the sun is from the earth?
400
absolute magnitude
What is the brightness a star would have to an observer if all stars were equally distant from the earth?
500
resembles a bull
What is the constellation Taurus?
500
Southern Cross
What is a group of 4 very bright stars located between the legs of Centaurus?
500
chromosphere
What is the sphere of color?
500
light year
What is the distance light travels in one year?
500
binary star
What is a double star?