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100
The name of a cloud that will one day form a star.
What is a nebula?
100
The percentage of the solar system that is the sun.
What is 99.9%
100
The distance light travels in about 365 days (6 trillions miles).
What is a light year?
100
Space object believed to be at the center of most galaxies.
What is a black hole?
100
The number of galaxies estimated to be in the universe.
What is over 100 billion.
200
The distance of this star measures 12 miles across.
What is a neutron star?
200
Gas the sun is composed (made) of.
What is hydrogen?
200
The apparent shift in the position of an object when viewed from different locations.
What is a parallax?
200
Name and type of the galaxy we live in.
What is the Milky Way Galaxy, a spiral.
200
Name of the closest galaxy to Earth. (Not the Milky Way)
What is Andromeda?
300
The stages a star goes through in it's life.
What is birth, main sequence, and death?
300
The gas created by fusion inside the sun.
What is helium?
300
Process where lighter elements collide to make heavier element.
What is fusion?
300
The three types of observed galaxies.
What is Spiral, Elliptical, and Irregular Galaxies.
300
Name of the theory on how the universe appeared.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
400
Color of the hottest star.
What is blue?
400
The name for the colorful sky that occurs in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere after a solar flare.
What is the Northern Lights?
400
A change in observed wavelength or frequency of a wave that occurs when the source of the wave or observer is moving.
What is the Doppler Effect?
400
An object so bright, you may not see the galaxy surrounding it.
What is a quasar?
400
The amount of time the Big Bang took to occur.
What is a fraction of a second?
500
The name of the event that occurs when a super red giant explodes.
What is a supernova?
500
The middle layer of the sun's atmosphere.
What is the chromosphere?
500
Transfer of energy from place to place by the motion of heated gas or liquid.
What is convection?
500
Give three characteristics of an elliptical galaxy.
What is shaped like a sphere, contains old stars, no dust between stars.
500
Name the 4 pieces of evidence that allow us to know the Big Bang occurred.
What is Microwave Radiation, Motion of Galaxies, Distant Galaxy Observations, Experiments and Models.