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What is the sun?
a medium-sized star that appears the brightest and largest from earth
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What is medium-sized?
What is the size of the sun?
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What is hot glowing gases?
Like the sun, stars are a ball of ___ ________ _____
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What are stars?
The sun and stars are both ________.
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What is a star?
a ball of hot, glowing gases
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No
Is it safe to look at the sun with a telescope?
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Star A is closer to Earth than star B
Star A and Star B give off the same amount of light. But, Star A looks brighter. What would explain this?
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What is day?
Stars and the sun are both present during the ______
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What is a telescope?
a tool that makes faraway objects seem larger and closer?
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What is heat and light?
Like other stars, the sun gives off ______ and _______.
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Yes
Are stars present in the day time?
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What is light and heat?
Both the sun and the stars give off _____ and ______
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What is brightness?
what tells how much light a star gives off
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What is cold, dark, and empty?
Without the sun, Earth would be _______, _______, and ________.
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Yes
Is it safe to look at the stars with a telescope?
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The sun and stars are both stars, but you can only look at _____ through a telescope.
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What is radiant energy>
energy that can travel through space and gives off light and heat to the earth
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What is radiant energy?
_______ energy is is the energy that creates light so animals and humans can see and also heats the Earth.
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What is hottest?
Blue stars are the _________ stars.
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