Stuff in Space Density Speed and Distance Stars The Beginning of Everything
100
What is the Sun
This object is fusing Hydrogen into Helium about 93 million miles from Earth
100
What is the lighter one
If two objects are of equal size, but different weight, this one is less dense
100
What is a light year
The distance that light can travel in a year
100
What is Hydrogen
The first stars formed when huge clouds of this were pulled together by their own gravity
100
What is the Big Bang
The accepted theory about how the Universe began
200
What is the Universe
The word for the sum of everything that exists
200
What is its size and its mass (weight)
These two things are required to calculate the density of a substance
200
What is an AU (astronomical unit), or 93 million miles
The distance from the Sun to the Earth
200
What is nuclear fusion
Inside the core of a star, there is enough heat and pressure to combine lighter elements into heavier ones via this process
200
What is a singularity
A single infinitely dense, infinitely hot point that everything expanded outward from
300
What is a galaxy
A collection of billions of stars, solar systems, and nebulae
300
What is squashing it
You could make something more dense by doing this
300
What is 100,000 light years
The approximate width of our galaxy
300
What is the main sequence
The part of a star’s life when it is fusing hydrogen into helium in its core
300
What is Hydrogen
There were no atoms of elements at first, but when protons began to capture electrons this element was formed
400
What is a solar system
A star and everything that is orbiting around it
400
What is 1gram per milliliter or 1 gram per cubic centimeter
The density of water
400
What is 4 light years
The approximate distance to the nearest star to our Sun
400
What is a Red Giant
When our star's core has run out of Hydrogen, it will begin fusing Helium and swell outward, becoming this
400
What is a red shift
Other galaxies are moving away from us, as evidenced by this distortion of light
500
What is a nebula
A cloud of dust and gas which can be the birthplace of stars, or the remnants of a dead one
500
What is 3 pounds per liter
A 15 pound bowling ball that has a volume of 5 liters has this density
500
What is tens of thousands of years (78,000)
The approximate travel time for one of our space probes to reach the nearest star to our Sun
500
What is going supernova
Supermassive stars created all the heavy elements in the Universe, when they did this at the end of their life cycles
500
What is "white noise," "static," or "cosmic background microwave radiation"
Leftover heat and energy from the Big Bang can still detected as this






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