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How many Earths fit inside the sun?
What is 1.3
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What are the percentages of Hydrogen and Helium that make up the sun's mass?
What is 71% and 27%
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A ______ is a term for swirling clouds of hydrogen gas out of which stars are born.
What is a nebula
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A red giant is a dying star in the last stages of stellar evolution. In only a few billion years, our sun will what?
What is turn into a red giant star expand and engulf the inner planets including Earth
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What is the Big bang theory?
How old is the universe according to the big bang theory?
What is the leading explanation about how the universe began, and 13.8 billion years old
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The density of the sun is similar to what planet
What is Jupiter
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_________ are found in the granulation in the Photosphere?
What is Sunspots
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A main sequence star is in the state of what?
What is Hydrostatic Equilibrium
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What is an Elliptical galaxy?
What's the shape of an irregular galaxy
What is 3D, without much structure and their stars ate some what in orbit around the center and irregular galaxies have no particular shape.
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About ______ to ______ of the incoming energy from the sun reaches the Earth
What is 50% and 70%
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A loop of glowing hydrogen extending outward for the surface of the sun is called what?
What is a solar prominence
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How are irregular galaxies formed?
Where is our solar system located at?
What is by two galaxies colliding and On the edge of a spiral arm of our milky way galaxy
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The light we see from the sun comes from_____
What is the photosphere
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The ________ is an aura of plasma that surround the sun
What is The Corona
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What is at the very center of our galaxy?
Why is a black hole bright?
What is a black hole and because there are many stars surrounding it
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This rosy red part of the sun is only apparent through what?
What is the chromosphere
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Where does the primary source of the sun come from?
What is from fusing hydrogen atoms into helium atoms
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Name of the American astronomer, that played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy.
What is Edwin Hubble and a galaxy where the stars and gas clouds are concentrated mainly in one or more spiral arms.
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