Space

Question 1

Aldebaran

Answer 1

an example of a red supergiant

Question 2

Alpha Centauri

Answer 2

the closest star system to Earth, made up of three stars

Question 3

Asteroid Belt

Answer 3

separates rock planets from gas planets

Question 4

Average Star Size

Answer 4

less than four times the size of the Sun

Question 5

Betelgeuse

Answer 5

a highly unstable red supergiant approximately 600 light years away

Question 6

Big Bang Theory

Answer 6

the theory that the universe expanded from a single point in space

Question 7

Big Crunch Theory

Answer 7

the theory that the universe will expand until it reaches at certain point, and the reduce back into nothing, and at the point of nothingness, a new Big Bang will happen

Question 8

Big Yawn Theory

Answer 8

theory that universe will keep expanding forever

Question 9

Black Dwarf

Answer 9

when a star cools and eventually becomes a black mass that emits no light, so it will spend the rest of eternity drifting through space

Question 10

Blackhole

Answer 10

a stage of star death after supernova, leaving behind a huge mass with so much gravity even light is prevented from leaving it, and can suck in nearby stars and solar systems

Question 11

Blue Giant

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a phase in the life cycle of a massive star, where a star burns so hot it becomes blue

Question 12

CMBR

Answer 12

Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

the energy left over after the Big Bang, furhter evidence for the Big Bang

Question 13

Doppler Effect

Answer 13

where the wavelength of a sound changes as something moves, making the sound high pitched as it comes towards you and low pitched as it moves away

Question 14

Dwarf Planets

Answer 14

planets too small to be classed as proper planets

Question 15

Pluto

Answer 15

beyond Neptune, used to be classed as a planet until more accurate measurements were done, the biggest dwarf planet

Question 16

Ceres

Answer 16

dwarf planet just beyond Mars, may sustain life

Question 17

Eris

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second-largest dwarf planet after Pluto

Question 18

Makemake

Answer 18

dwarf planet roughly sixty percent the size of Pluto

Question 19

Galaxy

Answer 19

group of stars

Question 20

GEO

Answer 20

a manmade satellite that orbits the Earth in 1 day

Question 21

Goldilocks Zone

Answer 21

area in a solar system where conditions are perfect to support life

Question 22

Gravity

Answer 22

forces that keep everything in place in the solar system

Question 23

HST

Answer 23

a manmade satellite that orbits the Earth in 97 minutes

Question 24

Lageos

Answer 24

a manmade satellite that orbits the Earth in 3.8 hours

Question 25

Main Sequence Star

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stars such as the Sun, which last for approximately 10000000000 years, our sun is about halfway through

Question 26

Massive Star

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a star more than four times the size of the Sun

Question 27

Multiverse

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the theory that there are multiple universes

Question 28

Nebulae

Answer 28

clouds of dust and gas

Question 29

Neutron Star

Answer 29

a celestial object formed mainly of very high density neutrons, the fate of most smaller massive stars

Question 30

Oscillating Universe Theory

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the theory that our universe was created by another universe ending

Question 31

Planet

Answer 31

things that orbit stars, with satellites orbitting them

Question 32

Mercury

Answer 32

the smallest and hottest planet

Question 33

Venus

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second planet, named after the Roman goddess of love, covered in poisonous gas

Question 34

Earth

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third planet, only one known to support life

Question 35

Mars

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fourth planet, used to have water, has mountains, may sustain life, has lots of iron

Question 36

Jupiter

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fifth planet, biggest planet, has a red storm that has been raging for over 300 years

Question 37

Saturn

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sixth planet, famous for rings

Question 38

Uranus

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seventh planet, also has rings

Question 39

Neptune

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the last and coldest planet

Question 40

Planetary Nebula

Answer 40

an expanding shell of gas around a red giant that makes it form a white dwarf

Question 41

Protostar

Answer 41

huge clouds of hydrogen gas in which stars are made, many thousands of times bigger than our solar system, as the clouds collapse stars are born in them

Question 42

Red Dwarf

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a very low mass main sequence star

Question 43

Red Giant

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as the sun runs out of hydrogen the outer layers of the sun become cooler and they expand massively, when this happens to the sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars will be swallowed up

Question 44

Red Ring

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where outer layers of a supernova rebound off the core in a shockwave

Question 45

Red Shift

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where light from other galaxies has a longer wavelength than expected, showing that galaxies are moving away very quickly, indicating that the further the galaxy is, the faster iti s moving, proving that the universe is expanding and has been since approximately 13.6 billion years ago

Question 46

Red Supergiant

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one of the stages of death that only affects stars more than four times larger than the Sun

Question 47

Satellite

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something that orbits a planet

Question 48

Solarsystem

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a star and its orbitting planets

Question 49

Stellar Nebula

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clouds of dust and gas in space that form stars

Question 50

Supernova

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the largest and most powerful explosions in the universe, where red supergiants literally blow themselves apart, all atoms are originally made from supernova explosions

Question 51

White Dwarf

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gravity causes the red giant to collapse into a small white star with a raidus of 5000 to 6000 km but still has the same mass as the sun

Question 52

Wormhole

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theory that there are holes in space that can transport things to other places in space