The stars
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| Properties of stars | Distance temperature brightness size mass
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| Closest star to the sun | Proxima centaur I
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| Part of a triple star system | Alpha centauri complex
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| Barnard star | 1.8 pc away
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| Parallax | Apparent shift of an object with respect to the background stars, distance in parsescs
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| Proper motion | Real annual motion of stars in space, arc seconds per year,
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| Largest known proper motion | Barnard star
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| Kirchoffs law | The summation of the gas and types of spectral lines
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| Optical telescopes | Gather light visible to human eye, sometimes other wavelengths
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| Objective lens | Big lens to point at the object
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| Problems with Refracting telescopes | Chromatic aberration
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| Chromatic abberation | Defect of lens in which different colors are focused at different points
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| What does the spectrum of a star look like? |
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| Electromagnetic radiation | A certain way in which energy moves through space
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| Types of radiation | Gamma, X-rays, ultraviolet rays, infrared light, and radio waves
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