Astronomy
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| The Big Bang | show 🗑
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| Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) Diagram | show 🗑
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| show | The brightness of a star. How much energy it gives off.
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| show | A cloud of gas that is undergoing nuclear fusion reaction in the core.
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| Nuclear fusion | show 🗑
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| Core of a star | show 🗑
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| Main Sequence | show 🗑
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| show | A huge, energy-releasing explosion of stellar material from a star.
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| Red Giant | show 🗑
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| Red Dwarf | show 🗑
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| White Dwarf | show 🗑
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| show | A massive star ends up collapsing under its own gravity and forms a black hole, whose gravity is so enormous that nothing, not even light can escape.
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| show | A massive star ends up collapsing into a neutron star. All the electrons and protons combing into neutrons under the enormous gravity.
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| show | A giant cloud of gas and dust.
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| Sun | show 🗑
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| show | A rocky or gaseous celestial body that is orbiting a star.
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| show | A sun and its planets/moons.
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| show | The moon reflects varying amounts of the sun's light as it orbits around the earth .
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| show | The moon is between the earth and the sun and we do not see any reflected light.
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| show | The earth is between the sun and the moon and we see all the reflected light from the sun.
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| Constellation | show 🗑
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| Aurora Borealis / Aurora Australis | show 🗑
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| Electromagnetic Radiation | show 🗑
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| Photon | show 🗑
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| show | The range of EM radiation from gramma rays (high energy) to radio waves (low energy)
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| Doppler effect | show 🗑
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| show | The wave source is moving towards the observer (or vice versa) so the frequency of the wave appears to increase.
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| show | The wave source is moving away from the observer (or vice versa) so the frequency of the wave appears to decrease.
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| Frequency of a wave | show 🗑
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| show | The distance from the crest of a wave to the next crest. Or trough to trough.
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| show | The frequency of a wave times its wavelength is equal to its speed.
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| Winter Solstice/Summer Solstice | show 🗑
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| show | Two days of the year, March 21, September 21 where we have equal hours of day and night.
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| Astronomical Unit | show 🗑
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| Lightyear | show 🗑
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| The age of the universe | show 🗑
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| The age of the sun | show 🗑
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| show | Venus, Mercury, Earth, Mars
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| show | Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune,Uranus
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| show | Proposed theory that 27% of the matter in the universe does not interact with EM radiation. 70% of universe is made up of dark energy.
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| show | The earth passes in front of the full moon, blocking its reflected sunlight from reaching the earth.
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| Solar Eclipse | show 🗑
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| Sunspots | show 🗑
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| show | Solar prominence that erupts sending solar material into space
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| show | Large loops of bright gas near sunspots
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| Corona | show 🗑
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| show | Chunks of rocky material, in various sizes, orbiting around the solar system.
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| show | Asteroid that enters the earth's atmosphere burning up due to friction. Also known as shooting star.
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| show | Meteor that does not completely burn up in the earth's atmosphere and hits earth.
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| Kuiper belt | show 🗑
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| show | A sphere of space dust and debris that extends to the very edge of the solar system.
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| Astronomy | show 🗑
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| Cosmology | show 🗑
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