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1
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How was the universe created?

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the big bang

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when did scientists start gathering data on how the universe was created?

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1960

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3
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who first to see radio waves?

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Arno Penzias and Robert

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4
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what was the radio waves first thought to be

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bird poo

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what does CMB stand for?

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cosmic microwave background

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6
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what is evidence of the big bang

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the left over CMB and the redshift

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what is the big bang theory

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the thought that the universe started form a huge concentrated bust of energy

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what is microwave light

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the lasting energy from the big band still cooling down

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9
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what does WMAO stand for?

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wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe

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what does COBE stand for

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cosmic background explorer

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what is red shift?

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everything moving away from everything quickly

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12
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what is blueshift?

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everything moving towards everything quickly

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13
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what is the electromagnetic spectrum

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it is the spectrum of light waves ranging from radio to gamma rays

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14
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when was the first telescope invented?

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16th century

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what were the first telescopes called?

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optical telescopes

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what were the second telescopes called?

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reflecting telescopes

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when was the first gigantic telescope made?

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1789

18
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when did the first person go to space?

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in 1961

19
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how many constellations are in the sky

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88

20
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how many constellations can we see in canada

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68

21
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what way do things move in out night sky

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from east to west

22
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how many stars have scientists estimated there are using hubble

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1 with 24 zeros

23
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what is a light year

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the distance light travels in a year

24
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how fast does light move in space

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300,000 km per s

25
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how far away is the furthest star hubble has discovered

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9 billion light-years away

26
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what is a galaxy

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a cluster of billions of stars

27
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what are the three type of galaxies and there shapes

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elliptical galaxies = spherical to oval

spiral galaxies = like a pinwheel

irregular galaxies = how no defined shape

28
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what are the two types of star clusters and there defamation

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open cluster = 50 - 1000 stars making a cloud of stars

globular cluster = 100,000 - 1,000,000 stars in a tight spiral shape

29
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property’s of the milky way

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spiral galaxy, disk like shape, globular star cluster fading into a open cluster, floyd’s if gas and dust, and has a diameter of 100,000 light years

30
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how many planets orbit our sun

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8

31
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what are the 8 planets orbiting our sun

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mercury, Venus, earth, mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

32
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what is the definition of a planet

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orbits a star, have enough gravity to make it spherical shape, must clear other objects of a similar six in its orbit

33
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what is a star

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a big ball of gas undergoing nuclear fusion

34
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what are stars born within

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a cloud of dust called a nebula

35
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what fuels a star

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the nuclear fusion of hydrogen to form helium

36
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what can stars become when they reach the end of there life

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white dwarf, neutron star, or a black hole

37
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what can stars become when they reach the end of there life

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white dwarf, neutron star, or a black hole

38
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what decides what a star will become when it dies

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it’s initial mass

39
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what is a lie mass star and its probabilities

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smaller then our sun, it will burn its fuel over 100 billion years, and will become a white dwarf

40
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intermediate mass star and its properties

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like our sun, burn fuel over 10 billion years, will become a red giant then a white dwarf

41
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high mass stars and the properties

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uses fuel quickly, will make a supper giant, causes a supper nova, will ether become a neutron star or a black hole

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