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| patterns of stars in the night sky |
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| Circumpolar constelations |
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| as earth rotates, ursa major, ursa minor, and other constellations circle around polariss |
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| amount of light a star gives off |
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| The amount of light recieved on Earth |
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| the distance light travels in a year |
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| the surface of the sun. gives of light |
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| above the photosphere is the chromosphere |
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| above the transition zone is the corona zone. Which is outer most layer |
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| areas of sun surface tat appear dark because they are cooler than their surroundings |
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| when large amounts of electricety charged gas are ejected suddenly from the earths corona |
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| In the late stage of star life cycle |
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| When a star gets a hot dense core and is about th size of earth |
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| late stage in a massive stars in which the core heats. The star eventually expands to form a supernova |
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| collapsed core of supernova that can shrink to 20 km in diameter and contains only neutrons in a dense core |
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| final stage in evolution of very massive star. where the cores mass collapses to a point its gravity is so strong that not even light can escape |
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| large group of stars, dust, and gas held together by captivety |
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| closest star to Earth besides sun |
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| cool spots on the Sun that can disturb radio frequency |
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| the galaxy that we live in |
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| forms from a red supergiant |
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| theory that 13.7 billion years ago, the Universe began with a fiery explosion |
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| a scatter graph of stars showing the relationship between the stars' absolute magnitudes or luminosities versus their spectral types or classifications and effective temperatures |
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