Astronomy
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| show | the action of rotating around an axis or center.
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| show | the action by a celestial body of going round in an orbit or elliptical course
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| Most Common Elements in the Universe | show 🗑
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| show | a unit of astronomical distance equivalent to the distance that light travels in one year
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| show | the phase between the full and new moon; getting bigger
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| Waning | show 🗑
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| show | A waxing moon will be illuminated on the right side, and a waning moon will be illuminated on the left side.
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| show | Left sides
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| show | New Moon, First Quarter, Full Moon, and Last Quarter and Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous, and Waning Crescent.
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| Moon’s revolution period | show 🗑
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| How long does it take for the moon to go from new moon to full moon? | show 🗑
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| show | Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars
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| Gas Planets | show 🗑
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| Inner Planets | show 🗑
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| show | gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and ice giants Uranus and Neptune
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| show | a small rocky body orbiting the sun.
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| show | contains irregularly shaped bodies, of many sizes but much smaller than planets, called asteroids
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| You don’t need to know the difference between meteors, meteoroids, and meteorites. HOWEVER, study them and know a few things about them. | show 🗑
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| 3 Parts of a Comet | show 🗑
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| Which direction does the tail point? | show 🗑
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| show | As the comet gets closer to the sun it emits dust and microparticles that create the tail.
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| show | visible surface of the Sun
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| Corona | show 🗑
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| show | a stream of charged particles released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun
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| show | dark, planet-sized regions that appear on the sun;s surface
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| show | nuclear fusion
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| Absolute magnitude vs. Apparent magnitude | show 🗑
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| 90% of the stars on an H-R diagram are ______________ ______________ star | show 🗑
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| Nebula | show 🗑
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| Main Sequence | show 🗑
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| show | a very large star of high luminosity and low surface temperature
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| show | the largest stars in the universe in terms of volume, although they are not the most massive or luminous
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| show | a star that suddenly increases greatly in brightness because of a catastrophic explosion that ejects most of its mass.
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| Black Dwarf | show 🗑
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| Black Hole | show 🗑
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| What causes stars to have different life cycles? | show 🗑
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| show | nuclear fusion
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| Milky Way | show 🗑
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| Elliptical | show 🗑
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| Spiral | show 🗑
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| show | have no shape
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| What is at the center of a galaxy? | show 🗑
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| show | 42
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