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Planets
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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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What is a star? ( Something to do with light)
A huge glowing ball of gas that gives off its own heat and light
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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? A:Leo B: Scorpius C: Taurus
B: Scorpius
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What is a Black Hole? (burned-out)
The superdense collapsed core of a burned-out star that sucks in every object around it in space.
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What is the length of Uranus' winter? A: 28 earth days B: 11 earth months C: 42 earth years
C: 42 years
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How many Earths would equal the same exact weight of the Sun? A: 3 B: 332,950 C: 2 billion
B: 332,950 Earths
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What is the hottest known white dwarf temperature? A: 50 F B: 1,000 F C:360,000 F
C: 360,000 F
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What is the bull constellation called?
It is called the Taurus
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What is a Celestial Sphere? (something to do with stars and planets)
An imaginary shell around the sky on which the movements of stars and planets can be mapped
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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? A: 21 B: 5 C: 88
C: 88 constellations
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What is an Ice Dwarf? (think of its name)
a small icy object that orbits the Sun beyond Neptune
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What is the distance Neptune from the Sun? A: 3 million miles B: 2.8 billions miles C: the distance of a llama
B:2.8 billion miles
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What is the Earth's shadow? A: a shadow shaped as the earth B: Somewhere dark on earth C: the side opposite of a sunset
C:The opposite side of a sunset
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What is the Sun mostly made up of? A: Hydrogen B:Zinc C:Neon
The Correct answer is A. The Sun is made up of Hrydrogen 91.2% Helium 8.7% Oxygen, carbon, other elements 0.1%
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What is the swan constellation? A:Cygnus B:Jeff C:Cyan
A: 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.
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What is the diameter of Saturn's rings? A: 174,000 miles B: 1,000 miles C: 23 yards
A:174,000 miles
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What can the naked eye NOT see from Earth? A: Saturn B:The Moon C: Earth
C: Earth