The Sun
The hottest layer of the sun.
What is the core?
The most widely accepted theory explaining the origin of the universe
What is The Big Bang Theory
Planets that have volcanos, craters, mountains, and other surface features
What are terrestrial planets?
This space debris is usually a piece of an asteroid that is in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
What star is closest to Earth?
The Sun!
The color wavelength shift would you expect from a galaxy moving closer to us.
What is Blueshift?
The layer of the sun you don't often see unless it's an eclipse.
What is the corona?
The 3 main pieces of evidence supporting the big bang theory.
What is Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, Abundance of Helium and Hydrogen throughout the Universe, and Redshift?
The 4 planets known as a Gas Giants.
What are Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter?
These are meteors that land on Earth's surface.
What are meteorites?
The explosion of a high mass star.
What is a supernova?
The reason radio waves travel farther than your wifi can.
What are longer wavelengths?
The sun is about this many years into it's main sequence.
What is 4.6 billion?
Redshift can be explained by this phenomenon which shows that sound waves expand and widen the further away they move from their starting object.
Hint: Think of an ambulance siren moving away from you. Or a jet taking off.
What is the doppler effect?
Largest planet in the solar system
What is Jupiter?
What are the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud?
What are nebulas?
The lines on a spectrum that represent unique chemical makeup.
What are absorption lines?
The name for a large, bright feature extending outward from the Sun's surface.
What is a prominence?
What 13.7 billion years?
Order of the planets. Start with the closest from the sun
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
The 2 main differences between an asteroids orbit and a comet in the Oort clouds orbit.
What are a longer orbit and circular orbit for the comet?
The process by which stars get their energy.
What is nuclear fusion?
What created the heavier elements after helium and hydrogen.
What are stars?
The visible surface layer of the sun.
What is the photosphere?
Approximately three seconds after the big bang this happened.
What is the formation of hydrogen?
This planet spins sideways
What is Uranus?
The main difference between an asteroid and meteoroid.
What is size?
The stage that stars spend most of their life in?
What is Main Sequence?
How long after the big bang did it take for stars to form.
What is 300 million years?