Stuff in Space | Density | Speed and Distance | Stars | The Beginning of Everything |
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What is the Sun
This object is fusing Hydrogen into Helium about 93 million miles from Earth
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What is the lighter one
If two objects are of equal size, but different weight, this one is less dense
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What is a light year
The distance that light can travel in a year
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What is Hydrogen
The first stars formed when huge clouds of this were pulled together by their own gravity
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What is the Big Bang
The accepted theory about how the Universe began
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What is the Universe
The word for the sum of everything that exists
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What is its size and its mass (weight)
These two things are required to calculate the density of a substance
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What is an AU (astronomical unit), or 93 million miles
The distance from the Sun to the Earth
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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
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What is a singularity
A single infinitely dense, infinitely hot point that everything expanded outward from
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What is a galaxy
A collection of billions of stars, solar systems, and nebulae
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What is squashing it
You could make something more dense by doing this
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What is 100,000 light years
The approximate width of our galaxy
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What is the main sequence
The part of a star’s life when it is fusing hydrogen into helium in its core
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What is Hydrogen
There were no atoms of elements at first, but when protons began to capture electrons this element was formed
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What is a solar system
A star and everything that is orbiting around it
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What is 1gram per milliliter or 1 gram per cubic centimeter
The density of water
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What is 4 light years
The approximate distance to the nearest star to our Sun
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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
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What is a red shift
Other galaxies are moving away from us, as evidenced by this distortion of light
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What is a nebula
A cloud of dust and gas which can be the birthplace of stars, or the remnants of a dead one
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What is 3 pounds per liter
A 15 pound bowling ball that has a volume of 5 liters has this density
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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
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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
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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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