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A star's brightness is called its...
Magnitude
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What has a frozen nucleus and can develop a glowing tail?
Comet
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The sun is a...
star
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What are in the belt between Mars and Jupiter?
Asteroids
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The distance that light travels in one year is called...
light year.
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Type of galaxy which appears to have arms.
Spiral galaxy
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Type of galaxy which appears flat.
Elliptical galaxy.
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Type of galaxy which has no shape.
Irregular galaxy.
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What type of galaxy is the Milky Way?
Spiral
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Main sequence star ---->
red giant
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What is a huge system of stars, dust, and gases in space?
galaxy
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After a star becomes a Supernova, it will either become a ... or a ....
black hole or neutron star
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Which planet has recently been deemed "not a planet"?
Pluto
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The sun is a giant sphere of glowing gases called a...
star
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When a star collapses under it's own gravity, it becomes a...
black hole.
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From a red giant, a star can become a supernova or...
a white dwarf.
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All objects in the solar system travel around the sun in what type of orbit.
Elliptical orbit
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Name the 4 inner planets.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
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Name the outer planets.
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, (Pluto)
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Massive red giant star turns into a...
supernova
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The first stage of the formation of a star is called...
a protostar
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What's the difference between a meteor, a meteoroid, and a meteorite?
meteor - streak of light meteoroid - chunks of matter meteorite - what it's called when it enter Earth's atmosphere
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Besides inner and outer planets, how could you classify the planets?
hot/cold big/little solid/gaseous
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Name the planets in order.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, (Pluto)