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Galaxies and
Constellations
Colored band of light
seen near the poles
usually after a solar flare
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Auroras
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Loop of incandescent gas
that extends above the
photosphere
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Prominence
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Cooler, darker area of the
photosphere with a strong
magnetic field
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Sunspot
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Sudden outward eruption
of electrically charged
particles
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Solar Flare
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Auroras are usually seen
after these…
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Solar Flares
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A star begins as a ________, a
cloud of gas and dust
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Nebula
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Who did Ryan Reynolds
recently marry? …..Just
kidding.
What color of stars are
the hottest?
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Blue
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How many years ago
did the Big Bang
occur?
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14 billion years ago
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Pairs of revolving starts
held together by gravity
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Binary Stars
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How many years would a
star with the suns mass
stay on the main
sequence?
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10 billion years
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What do scientists use
to break sun’s light
into a spectrum?
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spectrograph
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What shape of galaxy is
the Milky Way?
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Spiral
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Objects in space moving
away from an observer
will display a ___ shift
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Red
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The idea that all matter
and energy was
compressed into a small
volume at one time billion
of years ago, exploded and
then began to expand is
known as the ________
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Big Bang Theory
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The apparent shift in
position of an object when
viewed from different
locations
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parallax
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The sun gets its energy
from this type of nuclear
reaction
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Nuclear Fusion
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Stars, dust and gas bound
together by gravity
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Galaxy
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The observed change
in the frequency of a
wave when either the
source or observer is
moving is known as
______
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Doppler shift or effect
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The brightness of a star
as it appears from
Earth is the _____
magnitude
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Apparent
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The location on the H-R Diagram where
most stars lie
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Main Sequence
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What can a star’s spectra tell
us?
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It’s temperature and
composition
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The distance light travels in
a year
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Light-year or 9.46 x 1012km
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Ursa Major, Draco, and
Pisces are all examples of:
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Constellations
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What are the Northern and
Southern Lights?
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Auroras: Aurora
Borealis & Aurora
Australis
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How long do sunspot cycles
last?
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11 years
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