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COPERNICUS WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO USE A TELESCOPE AND SEE THAT VENUS GOES THROUGH PHASES LIKE THE MOON. |
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Newton is responsible for the three laws of planetary motion. |
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sputnik was the first asteroid descovered in the asteriod belt by piazzi in 1801. |
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kepler deviesd the three laws of motion and gravity. |
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cassiopeia is considered a cirumpolar constellation. |
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The northen cross is an aserism located in the constellation Cygnus. |
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Cygnus is a summer constellation known as the chained princess. |
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the horsehead nebula is located in the orian the hunter. |
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Gemini is a winter constellation. |
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orion is considered a circumpolar constellation. |
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the big dipper is a constellation that contains the north store. |
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Taurus is a summer constellation known as the BULL! |
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Leo is a spring constellation that resembles a backward question mark.
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iO HAS OVER 300 ACTIVE VOLCANOES |
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most meteors that hit the earth's atmosphere are the size of a football |
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the comet belt lies between mars and jupiter |
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asteroids have not hit the earth yet, but are expected to in the future. |
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titan has a thick atmosphere. |
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if you want to study fresh impact craters, the best place to look at them is on venus. |
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the hottest moon in the solar system is triton |
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the hottest lava in the solar system is located on earth. |
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the most battered body in the solar system is in Europa. |
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The dominant geologic process taking place on the moon is meteor impacts. |
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the enegry source of the sun is helium |
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suspots are cooler than the surrounding disk of the photosphere they lie on. |
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hydrogen atoms in the core of the sun are fused into helium atoms. |
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two hdyrogen atoms are fussed into one helium atom. |
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nuclear fusion is the force that kees the sun from blowing itself to pieces.
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the soho satelite is designed to study the sun. |
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the solar wind is a stream of charged particles leaving the sun. |
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the solar wind causes the aroras |
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nuclear energy is ath the heart of all stars. |
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the engry that reaches the earth from the sun in one day is enough energy to meet the world enery demand for 30 years. |
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in the last stages of the sun's life, it will become a neutron star.
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there are more stars in space than grains of sand on earth. |
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the even horizon is a pinpoint of infinite desnity and infinite smallness. |
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anything that falls into a blackhole ends up at the accretion disk. |
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things can fall into a blackhole but nothing can get out. |
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neutron stars are approzimately the size of earth. |
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when stars die they either become white dwarfs, neutron stars, or pulsars. |
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the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. |
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a rocket must travel at least 25 miles per second to escape earths gravitional pull. |
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the upper mass limit of a neutron star is three times the mass of the sun. |
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einstine gave us our current understanding of gravity. |
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light is the only thing that can escape the gravitional pull of a black hole once inside the event horrizon. |
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the larger the black hole, the weaker the gravitional pull. |
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spagettification is the term used to describe how an object elongates as it enters a black hole. |
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a worm hole is a tunnel between two black holes. |
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which asronomer made the mos accurate eye oveservations of his day? |
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| which astronomer figured out that the planets traveled around the sun in elliptical orbits? |
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| which planet is also known as gaia? |
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| which planet is also known as hermes? |
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| which planet is also known as Kronus? |
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Which planet is also known as Coelus?
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which planet is aslo known as aphrodite?
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the pointer stars in the big dipper point to which star?
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| the current calandar system produces an error of one day every years |
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| all major modern visual teleschopes are telescopes. |
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| how far are we from the center of the galaxy in light-years(ly)? |
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what greek mythology character is known as the god of harvest?
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| which planet is also known as poseidon? |
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| which minor planet is aslo known as hades? |
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the very large array telescope studies what type of radiation?
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what is the name of the calendar system we use today?
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whose system of the universe was able to explain the retrograde motion of mars?
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| which planet is also known as ares? |
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| who wrote astronomia nova? |
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what is the diameter of the milky way in light years?
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| how thick is the milky way in light years? |
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| what is it called when a star blows up? |
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| new stars are formed from? |
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| cool, huge, dust and gas clouds. |
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| in terms of its total hydrogen-buring lifetime, the sun is? |
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| about half-way through its life. |
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| what type of stars are important in determing the distance of other galaxies? |
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| what exists at the center of our galaxie? |
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| what is the name of the galaxy we live in? |
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| Which of the following is the hottest area concering the sun? |
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| which star will die faster? |
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| what american was the 1st to perform experiments on luquid-propelled rockets? |
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| what was the date of the 1st liquid-fuled rocket flight in histroy? |
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| what YEAR was NASA formed? |
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| who broke the sound barrier? |
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| on what date in history was the first american sub-orbital flight? |
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what was the name of the 2nd US astronaunt program?
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| aprroximately how many minutes does it ake the space shuttle to orbit the earth minutes |
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| where is mission control located? |
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| how many nations are involved with the construction of the international space staion? |
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| how fast is the international space station traveling (mph)? |
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jupiter!
boys go to jupiter to get more stupitder~ |
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