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What Is our Home Star called

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The Sun

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What is t temperature of the corona of he sun

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Several million degrees

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What is the name of the Japenese Satalite that studied the sun

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YOKOH Satalite

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How far is the sun from us in light time

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8 light minutes

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How far is Mars in light time

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4 Light minutes

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What is the Vast Canyon system known as on Mars

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Valles Marieneris

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Hi far is Saturn in light time from us

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71 light minutes

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Which spacecraft took beautiful pictures of Saturn’s rings

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Cassini

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How far is IO from us in light time

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34 light minutes

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How many moons does Jupiter have

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63 (many more to be discovered)

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What is the name of Jupiter’s innermost moon

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IO

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Which asteroid is shown at the beginning of the book as an example of an asteroid orbiting the sun

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433 Eros

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How far from earth is Jupiter in light time

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34 Light Minutes

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What is the name of the mysterious swirling vortex on Jupiter

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The Great Red Spot

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How long have we known about the Great Red Spot

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Since the 17th Centrury

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16
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What spacecraft visited Jupiter in 1979

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Voyager 1

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How far from us is the centre of the Galaxy

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25,000 Light Years

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How heavy is the Black Hole at the centre of our Galaxy

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As heavy as 3 Million Suns

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What is the name of the phenomena which in a black whole is the point of no return for any object or light

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Event Horizon

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How far away is the Galaxy Centaurus A

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15 Million Light years

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What is the name of the vast cloud of dusty Gas within the Milky Way where Stars are forming

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The Orion Nebula

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How Far away is the Orion Nebula

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1,500 Light Years

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When did the Universe begin and with what Theory

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13.7 Billion years ago in the Big Bang

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How far does Light travel in a year

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5,878 Billion (5.8 million - millions)

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How fast is the speed of light
186,000 miles per second (around the world 7.5 times in 1 second) the earth is 24,000 miles
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What is the Earths Diamiter
7,930 miles
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What is the diameter of the Moons Orbit around the Earth
480,000 Miles
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How long does it take a probe to get to the Moon
2 to 3 days
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The Earth Moon system is part of what?
The Solar System
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How far does our Solar System reach out
To the comets 1.6 light years away
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How far away is Pluto
3.7 Billion Miles
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What is the closest Star system to the Sun
Alpha Centauri 4.35 light years away
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How many star systems are there within 20 light years of the sun
79 Star systems containing 106 stars
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What are Binery Stars
Two stars within the same system
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What is the Beightest star in the night sky
Sirius
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How many stars form the Milky Way
200 Billion
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How large is the Milky Way
100,000 light years across
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What is our cluster of Galaxy's called
The local Group
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How many Galaxies are contained within the Local Group
46
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How much distace does the Local Group of Galaxies cover
10 Million Light years
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What kind of Galaxies are mostly contained within the Local Group
Small Dwarf Galaxies
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What Galaxy within the local group is larger than our own
Andromeda
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What Galaxy Group is mentioned on this page
The Virgo Cluster
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What Supercluster are we part of
Virgo Supercluster
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What is the size of the Virgo Supercluster
100 Million Light years (tens of thousends of Galaxies)
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What is the name given to the Spherical Region around Earth from which Light has had time to reach us since the Universe began
the Observable Universe
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What is the name given to the boundry that seperates the Observable Universe from the rest of the universe
The Cosmic Light Horizon
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How far must the light at the Event Horizon must have taken to reach the Earth
13.7 Billion Years

Cosmology (4 decks)

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