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How long does it take for Halley's comet to become visible from earth?
75-76 years
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What is the constellation Leo viewed as?
A lion
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Eclipse
Blocking of light from one body by another that passes in front of it.
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What is the biggest planet in our solar system?
The biggest planet is Jupiter.
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What are comets? *
Chunks of rock and ice that orbit the Sun
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What star is hotter Blue Star, White Star, Red Star
Blue Star 54,000 F
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What constellation is close to the center of the Milky Way?
It is Scorpius?
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What is a Black Hole?
Body that is so massive and so compact that no light can leave its surface
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What is the length of Uranus' winter?
42 years
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How many Earths would equal the same exact weight of the Sun
332,950 Earths would equal the Sun
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What is the hottest known white dwarf temperature?
360,000 F
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What is the bull constellation called?
It is called the Taurus
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Celestial Sphere
Apparent spherical surface, centered on the Earth to which the stars seem to be fixed
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How long does it take Venus to orbit the Sun?
225 Earth days
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How long does it take for earth to go on its full axis ?
23 hours and 56 minutes or 24 hours
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What is the difference between meteor showers and meteor storms?
Meteor Showers have only dozens to hundreds of meteors Meteor Storms have thousands of meteors
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How many constellations documented by modern astronomers are there?
88 constellations
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What is the Big Bang Theory
Cosmological theory that assumes a universal expansion starting from an explosion in a very dense and compact stage.
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What is the distance Neptune from the Sun?
2.8 billion miles
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What is the Earth's shadow?
The opposite side of a sunset
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What is the Sun made up of?
Hrydrogen 91.2% Helium 8.7% Oxygen, carbon, other elements 0.1%
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What is the swan constellation?
It is Cygnus
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What is a Full Moon?
Observed once each month, when the Earth lies between the Sun and Moon, and the fully illuminated disk of the Moon can be seen.