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a range of electromagnetic waves arranged in order of wavelength and frequency -
travel at the same speed ,300 million meters per second in a vacuum |
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| is an instrument that gathers and magnifies light from faraway places |
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| telescope that uses CONVEX LENSES to bend or refract light to make an enlarged image |
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| uses a CONCAVE MIRROR to collect light |
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| telescope that can receive RADIO WAVES from sources in space |
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| ia an optical telescope located out past our atmosphere launched in 1990 |
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| refers to the perceived change in waelength of a wave that is emitted from a source that is moving away or toward an object |
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| the study of the properties of light that depend on wavelengths |
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| a tiny particle of light energy that exert radiation pressure |
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| made by an incandescent solid, liquid or gas under high pressure |
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| made when white light ispasses through a somewhat cool gas under low pressure |
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a series of bright lines of particular wavelengths depending on the gas that produces them
made by a hot gas under low pressure |
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| a troublesome effect associated with refracting telescopes that weakens an image and produces a halo of color around it |
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| the bright yellow "surface" of the sun's atmosphere - is the part we see from Earth |
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thin layer of hot incandescent gases a few thousand km thick under low pressure
the sun's atmosphere, between the photosphere and the Corona. - colored red by glowing hydrogen |
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| outermost and largest layer of the sun's atmosphere- charged particles escape the corona and move through space as the solar wind |
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| streams of protons and electrons that boil from the corona |
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| a cooler, dark spot on the photosphere - have a strong magnetic field - not a permanent feature on the sun |
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| huge, flame-like arches in corona made of chomospheric gases |
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| outbursts of light and solar winds - that last an hour or so; appear as a sudden brightening of the region above a sunspot cluster |
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| high energy particles given off by the sun and captured by the Earth's magnetic field |
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| energy the sun makes deep within its interior |
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