Cycle of Life | More About Stars | Planets | More About Planets |
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What is the explosion before a neutron star or a black hole?
Supernova
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What is a group of loosely packed young stars?
Open Cluster
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What is Mars?
Fourth Planet From The Sun
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What is traveling once around a central celestial object?
Revolution
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What is the stage for small stars after being a main-sequence star? OR What is the stage for small stars before planetary nebula?
Red Giant
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What is a group of densely packed old stars?
Globular Cluster
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What is Uranus?
Ice Giant
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What is the largest storm in the solar system? OR What is the defining feature of Jupiter?
Great Red Spot
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What is the final (proven) stage for a small star? OR What is the stage before black dwarf for a small star?
White Dwarf
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What are two stars (orbiting around each other) far enough to be spotted by a telescope?
Visual Binaries
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What is Mercury?
Smallest Planet
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What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars? OR What are the smaller / denser planets? OR What are the inner planets?
Rocky Planets
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What is the collection of gasses in a nebula into a protostar?
Accretion
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What is a graph that plots stars' absolute magnitude (or luminosity) versus their effective temperatures?
Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
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What is Saturn?
Has 62 Moons
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What are dwarf planets?
Ceres, Makemake, and Haumea
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What is the chain reaction where hydrogen is fused into helium?
Nuclear Fusion
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What is the second brightest star in Ursa Major? OR What is Alpha Ursae Majoris?
Dubhe
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What is Jupiter?
Has a Rotation Time of 9 Hours 56 Minutes
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What is the ability of a planet to assume a round shape due to sufficient mass/gravity?
Hydrostatic Equilibrium
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