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The closest star to Earth.
What is the Sun?
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This is where a star begins, a large cloud of gas and dust.
What is a nebula?
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The reason why we can not see stars during the day.
What is the Sun is so bright?
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The theory for the beginning of the universe.
What is The Big Bang Theory?
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1. The measure of the actual amount of light given off by a star. 2. The measure of the amount of light received on Earth from a star.
1. What is absolute magnitude? 2. What is apparent magnitude?
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The type of star our Sun is.
What is main sequence?
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What a main sequence star becomes after it uses up the hydrogen in its core, cools, and expands.
What is a giant?
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The reason why stars seem so small.
What is they are so far away?
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1. The name of our galaxy. 2. The shape of our galaxy.
1. What is the Milky Way? 2. What is spiral?
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1. An object made of ice, gas, dust and orbits the sun. 2. What a meteor is called when it hits Earth's surface.
1. What is a comet? 2. What is a meteorite?
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The center of our solar system.
What is the Sun?
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1. The explosion produced when a massive stars's core collapses. 2. Will our Sun ever experience this? Why or why not?
1. What is a supernova? 2. No, because it is an average (main sequence) star, not a massive star.
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The reason why stars twinkle in the sky.
What is the atmosphere makes the light bend?
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A large group of stars, gas, and dust.
What is a galaxy?
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1. The color of the hottest stars in space. 2. The color of the coolest stars?
1. What is blue? 2. What is red?
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How the Sun produces energy.
What is fusion?
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The 2 possibilities for the final stage of a MASSIVE star.
What is a black hole and a neutron star?
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A group of stars that form a pattern in the sky.
What is a constellation?
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The apparent shift in position of an object when viewed from different places.
What is parallax?
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1. Constellations that circle Polaris. 2. What is another name for Polaris?
1. What is circumpolar constellations? 2. What is the North Star?
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The dark, cooler areas on the Sun.
What are sunspots?
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The correct sequence for an average life cycle of a star.
What is nebula, main sequence, giant, white dwarf?
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The instrument astronomers use to see what stars are made of by breaking light into colors.
What is a spectroscope??
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All the galaxies, matter, time, and energy in space.
What is the Universe?
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1. A region so dense that nothing, including light, can escape its gravity field. 2. How distances in space are measured.
1. What is a black hole? 2. What are light years?