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					  What is a galaxy					 
					
					 A system of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction. 
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					  What is an ellipse					 
					
					 Planets orbit the sun in an orbit of this shape. 
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					  What is a nebula					 
					
					 A cloud of gas and dust that is the beginning of a star. 
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					  What is decreases.					 
					
					 As distance increases, gravitational force does this. 
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					  What is hydrogen					 
					
					 The most abundant element found in main sequence stars. 
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					  What is a redshift					 
					
					 A decrease in frequency due to movement away from an observer. 
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					  What is zero					 
					
					 The eccentricity of a perfect circle. 
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					  What is the core					 
					
					 Where fusion occurs in main sequence stars. 
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					  What is directly proportional					 
					
					 Mass and gravity have this type of relationship 
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					  What is increases					 
					
					 As the velocity of a planet/satellite's orbit increases, this happens to its orbital period. 
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					  What is open, closed, and flat					 
					
					 The three possible fates of the universe. 
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					  What is mass and distance					 
					
					 The two things that gravity depends on. 
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					  What is a supernova					 
					
					 An explosion that occurs at the end of a massive star's life-cycle. 
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					  What is decreases					 
					
					 As the wavelength of light from a star increases, its frequency does this. 
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					  What is aphelion.					 
					
					 The position on a planet's elliptical orbit where it is moving the slowest. 
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					  What is a blueshift					 
					
					 A decrease in wavelength due to movement toward an observer. 
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					  What is one year					 
					
					 The orbital period of the Earth. 
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					  What is a red giant					 
					
					 What the sun will become when it is done fusing hydrogen in its core. 
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					  What is increases					 
					
					 For stars on the main sequence, as the star gets hotter, its brightness does this. 
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					  What is it will continue to expand forever					 
					
					 If the fate of the universe is an open universe, this will happen. 
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					  What is redshifted galaxies and cosmic background radiation					 
					
					 Two pieces of evidence for the big bang theory. 
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					  What is the perihelion					 
					
					 The point in an elliptical orbit where the planet is moving the fastest. 
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					  What is white dwarf					 
					
					 The type of star that the sun will be at the END of its life-cycle. 
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					  What is smaller.					 
					
					 Compared to a less massive planet orbiting a star, a more massive planet orbiting the same star's major axis will be this. 
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					  What is c/a.					 
					
					 How eccentricity is calculated. 
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