Math of Incandescent Gas | Our Night Sky | Celestial Types | 5 Dwarfs of the Sky | The Ones Way Out There |
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What is an Astronomical Unit?
The measure of the distance between earth and the sun.
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What is Alpha Centauri?
The closest star to the earth.
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What is a Red Dwarf?
The most common star in the Milky Way.
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What is a Black Dwarf?
Hypothetical stars that are theorized to be white dwarfs that have radiated away all their leftover heat and light.
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What is a Pulsar?
A Neutron star that spins and gives off waves of radiation?
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What is 299,792,458 meters per second?
The speed of light.
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What is Sirius?
The brightest star seen from from earth.
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What is a Blue Giant?
They are large, evolved stars that have largely exhausted its core but have not started thermonuclear fusion.
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What is a White Dwarf?
Stars that have blown off their outer layers late in their lives.
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What is a White Hole?
The polar opposite of a black hole, it ejects matter from its core into space.
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What is 1,300,000 Earths?
This many Earths can fit inside the sun.
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What is the Big Dipper {Ursa Major} ?
The easiest constellation to see in the night sky.
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What is a Red Giant?
Arcturus is this kind of star.
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What is an Orange Dwarf?
A star with a brightness between that of yellow stars like the Sun and red dwarfs. They are classified as stellar type K.
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What is a Blitzar?
Pulsar with enough mass to suddenly collapse into a black hole when the rotation speed slows.
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What is 1.989 x 10^30 kg?
The mass of our sun.
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What is Betelgeuse?
This red super giant is the second-brightest star in the constellation of Orion.
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What is a Neutron Star?
These are the collapsed cores of massive stars that were compressed past the white dwarf stage during a supernova event.
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What is a Brown Dwarf?
Also commonly referred to as “failed stars”, they are sub-stellar objects that fill the gap between the most massive gas planets, and the least massive true stars.
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What is Binary Stars?
Stars that orbit each other in a single solar system.
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What is 9,941 F ? (5778 K)
The temperature of the sun.
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What is a Solar Flare?
Big explosion on the sun.
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What is a Black Hole?
This is a region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation can escape.
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What is a Yellow Dwarf?
A star and is often referred to as a G-type main sequence star. A perfect example of this star would be the sun.
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What is a Thorne-Zytkow Object?
An object is formed when a neutron star collides with a star. Usually looks like a peanut.
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