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What is the scientific term for the Northern lights?
Aurora Borealis
100
Aurora Australis.
What is the scientific term for the Southern lights?
100
Sirius is with a distance of 5.08x10¹³ miles.
What is the closest star to us?
100
78% of the air.
What percent of the air is Nitrogen?
100
A comets orbit is much more elliptical.
What is 1 difference between a comet and planet?
200
What protects us from solar storms?
The magnetosphere.
200
The comet getting near the sun and ice melting forms it.
What forms a dust tail on a comet?
200
The temperature.
What does the color of a star determine?
200
21% of the air.
What percent of the air is oxygen?
200
They are made of similar matter.
What is one similarity between planets and comets?
300
A region surrounding Earth where the magnetic field dominates.
Magnetosphere
300
A comet with an orbital period of less than 200 years.
What is a short-period comet?
300
No, the Sun is not.
Is the Sun an average star?
300
A supernova.
What is the explosion at the end of a stars life?
300
Radio waves.
What is the longest type of the electromagnetic spectrum?
400
What is a start born from?
Gasses in a nebula.
400
The spectrometer.
A tool used to collect samples from a comet.
400
It becomes a black hole.
In some cases what happens in the end of a very large stars life?
400
the length from crest to crest.
What is a wavelength?
500
A black hole is formed
What is formed when a very large star runs out of fuel to burn and collapses inward on itself?
500
The nucleus of a comet.
What is the solid part of a comet made up of ice and rock?
500
about 13 tons
How much would one tablespoon of a star weigh?
500
8.17x10¹³
What is the distance to Sirius in km?
500
The gamma ray.
What is the shortest type of the electromagnetic spectrum?