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| Photons are a stream of particles. |
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| What can photons do to matter? |
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| Photons can push on matter. |
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| Which wavelengths have the most energetic photons? |
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| Shorter wavelengths have more energetic photons. |
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| Which famous scientist used a prism to disperse visible light ad introduced the field of spectroscopy? |
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| How does the Doppler effect work? What does it allow astronomers to do? |
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| The Doppler effect is used to determine whether a star or other body in space is moving away from or toward Earth. |
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| Explain how refracting, reflecting, and radio telescopes work. |
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| Refracting telescopes refract, or bend light to the eyepiece. Reflecting telescopes uses a mirror to reflect light to the eyepiece. Radio telescopes uses radio waves to find certain locations in space to astronomers on Earth. |
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| How do we change the magnification of a refracting telescope? |
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| To change the magnification of a refracting telescope, we must use an eyepiece to magnify the image. |
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| What are the 4 parts of the sun? |
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| Solar interior, photosphere, chromosphere, and corona. |
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| Granules are relatively, small, bright markings of the photosphere. |
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| Which layer radiates the most of the light that reaches Earth? |
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| The photosphere radiates the most light that reaches Earth. |
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| Solar winds are streams of protons and electrons that flow from the corona constitute. |
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