Da Moon
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Fun Facts
100
The impact of a meteorite on the moon leaves this behind.
What are craters?
100
The color of our sun and most medium stars.
What is yellow?
100
This color of star is the smallest of all stars.
What are red stars?
100
This unit of measurement describes how far photons travel in a year.
What is a light-year?
100
This Legendary Pokemon who represents the sun takes the form of a great lion.
What is Solgaleo?
200
Large lava flows on the early moon cooled and created these. Also the name of a popular band!
What are Marias?
200
The region in which our sun formed 4.6 billion years ago that consisted of the building blocks the sun is now made from.
What is a Nebula?
200
This spinning stellar object made a helicopter-like sound to Nasa's radar dishes.
What is a pulsar?
200
This stage of star life, whose name means "early star," does not perform Nuclear Fusion yet as it's not hot enough.
What is a protostar?
200
This galaxy will eventually collide with the Milky Way.
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
300
The dark side of the moon has this, which explains why there are no lava flows.
What is a thick crust?
300
Our sun will eventually expand to become one of these, eveloping the Earth far in the future. Toasty!
What is a red giant?
300
While our sun will never reach this phase, stars with larger mass will in a massive explosion. Kaboom!
What is a supernova?
300
Light can travel this many times around the earth in 1 second. Zoom!
What is three times?
300
This mythical creature whose state is influenced by the phase of the moon got its origin from an Ancient Greek story of a king who served human meat to the gods and was punished for it.
What is a werewolf?
400
This phase of the moon can be described as approaching full.
What is Waxing Gibbous?
400
The rough age of our sun.
What is 4.6 billion years?
400
This expanse of dust and materials floats out in the wake of a Red Giant's collapse.
What is a Planetary Nebula?
400
The process by which stars consume hydrogen to create helium and energy.
What is nuclear fusion?
400
This element, the fundamental building block for all of life, was initially formed in the cores of dying stars.
What is Carbon?
500
This planet that stuck Earth long ago to form the moon got its name from a Greek Goddess of sight and heavenly light.
What is Thea?
500
What the eventual end state of our sun will be after its all said and done. Yo ho, Yo ho!
What is a White Dwarf?
500
This color of star is considered the largest, and can create black holes upon its death.
What are blue stars?
500
This object at the center of the Milky Way is the aftermath of a supernova.
What is a black hole?
500
In the box office hit Project Hail Mary, this sun-eating organism was responsible for creating the crisis that sent Ryland Grace to the Tau Ceti system.
What is the astrophage?