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| Photosphere | show 🗑
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| Chromosphere | show 🗑
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| show | The rarefied gaseous envelope of the sun and other stars.
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| Solar Wind | show 🗑
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| show | An eruption of a flamelike tongue of relatively cool, high-density gas from the solar chromosphere into the corona where it can be seen during a solar eclipse or by observing strong spectral lines in its emission spectrum.
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| Solar Flare | show 🗑
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| show | A natural electrical phenomenon characterized by the appearance of streamers of reddish or greenish light in the sky, usually near the northern or southern magnetic pole.
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| show | A nuclear reaction in which atomic nuclei of low atomic number fuse to form a heavier nucleus with the release of energy.
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| show | A group of stars forming a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named after its apparent form or identified with a mythological figure
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| show | A system of two stars in which one star revolves around the other or both revolve around a common center.
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| show | A unit of astronomical distance equivalent to the distance that light travels in one year, which is 9.4607 × 1012 km
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| show | The magnitude of a celestial object as it is actually measured from the earth.
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| show | The magnitude of a celestial object as it would be seen at a standard distance of 10 parsecs.
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| show | Any star that is fusing hydrogen in its core and has a stable balance of outward pressure from core nuclear fusion and gravitational forces pushing inward.
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| Red Giant | show 🗑
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| show | A very large star that is even brighter than a giant, often despite being relatively cool.
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| show | A variable star having a regular cycle of brightness with a frequency related to its luminosity, so allowing estimation of its distance from the earth.
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| Nova | show 🗑
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| Nebula | show 🗑
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| Hertzsprung-Russel Diagram | show 🗑
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| show | A small very dense star that is typically the size of a planet.
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| show | A celestial object, thought to be a rapidly rotating neutron star, that emits regular pulses of radio waves and other electromagnetic radiation at rates of up to one thousand pulses per second.
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| Galaxy | show 🗑
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| show | A theory that deduces a cataclysmic birth of the universe from the observed expansion of the universe, cosmic background radiation, abundance of the elements, and the laws of physics.
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