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| ex. Big Dipper, Orion, Little dipper |
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| The measurement of a stars brightness, that is seen form Earth |
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| The measurement of a stars brightness |
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| 1 light year = 9.4605284 × 1015 meters |
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"Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star about 4.24 light-years distant inside the G-cloud in the constellation of Centaurus."
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"The photosphere of an astronomical object is the depth of a star's outer shell from which light is radiated."
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| The second layer of the sun |
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| The last layer of the sun |
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| When the sun gets blocked by the moon |
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"Sunspots are temporary phenomena on the photosphere of the Sun that appear visibly as dark spots compared to surrounding regions."
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aka CME
Solar flares and prominence's |
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The 2nd smallest type of a planet
These planets don't "officially" count |
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| The second type of size in a planet |
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| The BIGGEST type of a planet |
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These are the 1st smallest type of planets
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| A galaxy containing helium and hydrogen and dust |
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| The diagram showing how hot a star really is |
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| A star that can end up in a supernova if blown-up |
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| A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity prevents anything, including light, from escaping. |
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| Spiral, elliptical, irregular |
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| The theory of how our galaxy was created |
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