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a slightly cooler region on the surface of the sun, caused by twisted magnetic fields
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the largest dwarf planet in the asteroid belt
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light waves emitted by the sun that cause sunburns
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the core of a comet
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the regions of jupiter that have light colored clouds
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asteroids mostly made of pure nickel and iron
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what causes erosion on the moon
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to get a star's peak wavelength, we need to know its ____________.
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moon phase that's NEVER visible during the day, only the night
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largest moon in the solar system
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"C" type asteroids are named that because of ___________
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the 12 constellations that the sun directly blocks throughout the year
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the actual angle we see something shift in parallax
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light waves that can penetrate skin and organs but not bone
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moon of jupiter that may have a huge ocean of liquid water under a deep sheet of ice
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when the moon gets between the earth and sun, blocking out light
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the name for the region on mars with tons of huge volcanoes
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a collection of stars that seem to form a picture or shape
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a circular hole caused by an impact and found on many bodies in the solar system
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the "north star" in ancient Egypt
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a moon that may not have any core - just solid slush all the way through
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the star Spica is in this constellation
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the distance that light travels in one year
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a tower of hot gas that rises through the sun's chromosphere
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the equivalent of longitude in astronomy
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planet with the fastest winds in the solar system
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moon phase where the moon is almost full
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moon phase where the moon is almost full, but is getting darker
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the flat plane of the solar system
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the "surface" of the sun
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moons that keep saturn's rings sharp
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the effect of stars being hard to see because of city lights
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the spot directly straight up
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the study of everything beyond the Earth
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planet with a very large core of iron
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the layer of the sun where energy is generated and things are at their hottest
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when the earth gets between the moon and sun, turning the moon red
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the largest planet in the solar system. also has the most moons
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the area where you'd be able to see a partial eclipse, but not a total one
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a cliff formed by Mercury collapsing. Can be a mile deep and hundreds of miles long
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castor and pollux are in this constellation
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mirror that gives a picture where things are bent inwards
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the large crater in the southern hemisphere of mars
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the layer of the sun that can get as hot as 1 million kelvin
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the powder covering the surface of the moon
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a large collection of rocky fragments that orbit the sun between mars and jupiter
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planet that spins so fast it squishes at the poles and bulges at the equator noticeably
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a moon that's almost certainly actually the death star in disguise (!!)
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the practice of using 3 or more telescopes to function like one big telescope
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uranus and neptune have very odd _______________ that are off-center from the core
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the type of light waves that we see
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a graph showing the total light being put out by an object across all wavelengths
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the largest gap in saturn's rings
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a huge crater on Mercury that made an impact so big, it caused ripples around the planet
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largest storm on jupiter. Twice the size of Earth
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moon phase where the right half of the moon is illuminated
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the layer of the sun where hotter material cycles with cooler material
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a distance of roughly 3 light years. equal to the distance we'd get if we had a parallax of one second
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the smallest unit for declination
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the lens in a telescope that you look through
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the apparent shift of foreground objects compared to background objects
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the moon phase that comes after the waning gibbous
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what we call the area of a comet where water is boiling and pieces are breaking off
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constellation named after an instrument that appears in summer
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moon phase where the moon would be high in the sky around 3 PM
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the direction that nearly everything in the solar system spins and moves
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the unit we use to measure declination
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the "atmosphere" of the sun
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the name for the dark, lava-hardened areas on the moon
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longest type of light wave
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what old images in astronomy were developed on
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coldest moon in the solar system. Has cryovolcanoes
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dwarf planet that has an atmosphere that freezes to the surface as snow in the winter
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a technique of adjusting a telescope with lasers to "cancel out" atmospheric problems
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the name for one of the boiling bubbles on the surface of the sun
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moon phase where we see no light reflected from the moon towards earth
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planet tilted completely on its side
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the name for the amount of energy hitting every square meter of the earth every second
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the layer of the sun where light bounces around for up to millions of years before escaping
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an odd weather phenomenon that causes saturn's north pole to look like a hexagon
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what happens to light when a star is moving towards us quickly
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a measurement of the size of a light wave
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a rainbow of light put out by a glowing object made of many elements
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pluto's biggest moon
100. to get the total energy a star makes, we need to know its ___________ and its temperature.
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most prominent star in bootes
102. small gap near the outer edge of saturn's rings
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constellations that can be seen all year
104. a small particle emitted during nuclear fusion that can pass through nearly everything
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a rainbow with dark lines telling us what's absorbing light we're looking at
106. a volcano on cold moons that spits out liquid water that hardens into ice
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what we call any planet made mostly of hydrogen with a small rocky core
108. the day when the sun is in the sky for the shortest or longest possible amount of time
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mars has large _____________ that can cover the entire planet for months
110. fractured moon of uranus with crazy terrain
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the equivalent of latitude in astronomy
112. light waves that can cause water molecules to vibrate
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when two stars appear to be next to each other but can actually be very far apart
113. the area where you'd be able to see a total eclipse
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mirror that gives a spread out picture
114. last phase before we have a new moon
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light is created when ________ jump up or down levels in an atom
116. the wobble in earth's spin
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planet that has had most of its oxygen locked up as rust in the rocks
119. constellations that can only be seen part of the year
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the lens in a telescope that points towards the stars
123. smaller than degrees, but not the smallest unit for declination
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a mirror that simply reflects light
124. the unit we use to measure right ascension
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physics is this kind of science
128. venus and uranus spin backwards. We call this ______________.
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a telescope that works by bounding light with mirrors
133. what we get when a prominence breaks
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a ball of dirty ice that orbits the sun in a highly elliptical orbit
134. the day when the sun is in the sky for exactly 12 hours
101. what we call the phenomenon where the sun rotates faster in the middle than at the poles
135. the name for the bright, rockier regions on the moon
103. a rainbow effect seen around the edges of cheaper lenses
137. what the storms on venus are mostly made of
105. light waves that our bodies emit as heat
138. a loop of gas that erupts from the sun and twists back down to the surface
107. astronomy is this kind of sciecne
139. a huge eruption of material from the sun that can put earth in danger
109. the device that causes modern digital cameras to work
140. a telescope that works by bending light with lenses
111. what saturn's rings are made of
144. the most volcanically active body in the solar system
115. a pattern of thin lines of color that tell us what a glowing substance is made of
145. a lens that doesn't bend light
117. the name for the motion light makes as it moves through the radiative zone
146. a lens that magifies close things
118. the small bump of a mountain we see in the center of large craters
147. the regions of jupiter where the clouds are deeper down
120. the angle we use for calculations in parallax
148. a measurement of how often light waves pass us
121. a lens that makes objects appear farther away
149. the huge valley on mars, caused by the tharsis region buckling
122. what mars' atmosphere is mostly made of
150. the only moon in the solar system with a thicker atmosphere than even earth's
125. hottest planet in the solar system
126. the name of the biggest volcano in the solar system
127. constellation we call "the scorpion"
129. the type of asteroids that are the most rocky ones
130. the "north star"
131. what happens to light when a star is moving away from us quickly
132. the cause of the seasons on Earth
136. this star's name is latin for "female warrior"
141. what the sun does to hydrogen to create energy
142. the most dangerous and energetic of light waves
143. constellation we call "the ram"
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