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The study of the moon, stars, and other objects in space
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scientists who study the stars and other objects in the sky
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astronomers
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The study of the moon, stars, and other objects in space
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scientists who study the stars and other objects in the sky
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The distance light travels in 365 days
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Give a characteristic of outer space (up to five).
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an area containing no air or any other matter
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an imaginary line that stretches from pole to pole through the interior of the earth, around which the earth rotates
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the force that resist motion
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Why can an object (such as a spaceship) coast through space almost endlessly unless it collides with something?
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a star system containing from millions to billions of stars
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a cluster of about 40 galaxies to which the Milky Way Galaxy belongs.
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spiral, elliptical, irregular
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looks like a giant pinwheels spinning through the void of space
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a spiral galaxy in which spiral arms extend outward from a bar running through the center of the galaxy
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look like eggs or footballs
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stars clumped together in no definite shape
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large clouds of gas and dust floating in space
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a pair of stars that travel together and rotate around each other as the moon does the earth
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A group of stars that form a pattern in the sky
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the pole star or North star around which all the other stars appear to rotate as seen from earth
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Very well known constellation that never sets in the northern sky; Native Americans and Greeks wrote legends about it, several of its stars align to point to Polaris (the North Star)
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A constellation in the northern hemisphere between Pegasus and Draco in the Milky Way; supposedly looks like a swan flying
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What is this constellation?
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Great hunter; constellation; son of Poseidon
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Constellation; mother of Andromeda; queen
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the closest star to earth besides the sun
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Brightest star in the night sky. The "dog" star. Actually a binary star.
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The brightest star in the constellation Leo that marks one of the lion's front paws; can be found by drawing an imaginary line through the back of the Big Dipper's bowl
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the brightest star in the constellation Perseus; a binary star
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What is this constellation?
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The two brightest stars in the constellation Gemini; marks the heads of the two boys
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Constellation that commemorates the daughter of Cassiopeia and Cepheus, king and queen of Ethiopia
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What is this constellation?
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A beautiful star cluster; nicknamed "Seven Sisters"; located near Taurus the Bull; mentioned in the Bible in both Job and Amos
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In what book of the Bible are multiple heavenly bodies mentioned, including Orion, Arcturus, and Pleiades?
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The constellation that contains Sirius, the star with the greatest apparent magnitude (brightness as seen from Earth):
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What is this constellation? It's brightest star is Antares.
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Looks like an archer with a bow; constellation that contains the Teapot star group
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Constellation of a mythical creature; its brightest star: contains the star that is nearest earth after the sun: Proxima Centauri
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the most familiar group of stars in the southern sky; appears on the flag of New Zealand (a country in the Southern Hemisphere)
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closest star to the earth / Most important star to earth
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How any miles is the Sun away from Earth on average?
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the hottest region of the sun; 27 million degrees Fahrenheit
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the visible surface of the sun
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dark patches on the sun's photosphere
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the part of the sun's atmosphere closest to its surface
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Layer of the sun's atmosphere that is made of hot gases that extends hundreds of thousands of miles from the sun; visible during a solar eclipse; hottest part of the sun's atmosphere
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When the moon passes directly between Earth and the sun, blocking sunlight from Earth
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loops of cooler gas erupting from the chromosphere
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Violent eruptions of particles and radiation from the surface of the Sun
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particles of gas that escape from the corona at high speeds forming a faint wind
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Brightness of a star
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Actual brightness of a star
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how bright of a star looks from earth
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Stars whose temperature and brightness fall into an average range in comparison to most stars measured in the universe
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Stars that are a cooler color but yet are brighter than other stars of the same temperature due to their large size
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White-hot stars that are much dimmer than average stars of the same temperature due to small, compacted size:
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When a star flares many more times than its original brightness
