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What is a Planet?
A large rock or gas, usually has a liquid core and is sphere shaped that is orbiting a star
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What is a star?
Large ball of burning gas seen from earth as a point of light
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Who is Isaac Newton?
He discovered the laws of gravity
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What is a Spiral Galaxy?
Consist of a flat, rotating disc containing stars, gas and dust, and a central concentration of stars known as the bulge
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What is Heliocentric Theory
The belief that the planets revolve around the sun
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What is Venus?
The brightest planet in our solar system
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What is a Yellow Dwarf?
An ordinary star at a stable point in it's devolution
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Who is Galileo?
Discovered moons revolving around Jupiter
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What is an Elliptical Galaxy
Type of galaxy having an approximately ellipsoidal shape and a smooth, nearly featureless brightness profile
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What is Geocentric theory?
The belief that the planets revolve around the earth
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What is Neptune?
The eighth planet in our solar system named after the god of the sea
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What is X-ray Star
Bright objects emitting X-rays as a primary component of it's radiation
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Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
Believed in Heliocentric model
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What is an Irregular Galaxy
Having a lot of gas and dust means that these galaxies have a lot of star formation going on within them.
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What is Big Bang Theory
A theory according to which the universe began billions of years ago in a single event, similar to an explosion
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What is Pluto?
Made from the same material as Mercury ninth in order from the sun
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What is Ursa Minor?
Constellation also known as the little bear
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Who is Stephen Hawking
His discovery that black holes emit radiation making their detailed study possible
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What is The Milky Way
The galaxy that contains our Solar System. Its name is derived from its appearance as a dim glowing band arching across the night sky whose individual stars cannot be distinguished by the naked eye
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What is Gravity?
The theory that any two particles of matter attract one another with a force directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them
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What is the Sun?
The yellow dwarf star in our solar system
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What is the Polaris / The North star
The star found in Ursa Minor
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Who is Aristotle?
Believed in the geocentric model
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Who is Galileo?
Discovered first actual proof of the Milky Way
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What is the Quantum theory of Light?
Einstein's theory that created the idea that light exists as tiny packets, or particles, which he called photons.
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