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Decks in this class (12)

Unit 1: The night sky
What is an astronomical unit au 1,
What is the celestial sphere 2,
What are constellations 3
15  cards
Unit 2: History & Celestial Orbits
What is heliocentrism 1,
What is geocentrism 2,
What are kepler s 3 laws 3
9  cards
Unit 3: Earth & Space
How illuminated are the following...,
When do solar eclipses occur 2,
What shapes the earth surface mag...
7  cards
Unit 4: Light & Observations
What is wavelength 1,
What is frequency 2,
What is the doppler shift 3
10  cards
Unit 5: The Solar System & Planets
What kind of interior does mercur...,
What kind of interior does jupite...,
What allows a planet to form 3
7  cards
Unit 6: Moons & Small Bodies
What is the asteroid belt 1,
What happens when asteroids enter...,
What is the kuiper belt 3
6  cards
Unit 7: Stars & The Sun
To break up iron nuclei or fuse t...,
Name all the letters in order in ...,
The sun is under which spectral t...
5  cards
Unit 8: Stellar Evolution
What properties do high mass star...,
What properties do low mass stars...,
What are the luminosity of stars ...
12  cards
Unit 9: Compact Objects
What properties do white dwarfs h...,
What properties do neutron stars ...,
What properties do black holes ha...
4  cards
Unit 10: Exoplanets & Astrobiology
Explain the radial velocity detec...,
Explain the transit detection met...,
What is the habitable zone 3
4  cards
Unit 11: Galaxies & The Milky Way
Describe the shape of ellipticals...,
What is the hubble fork 2,
Describe the stars that would be ...
10  cards
Unit 12: Cosmology
What is the distance ladder 1,
What is hubble time 2,
What is the difference between da...
11  cards

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