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The helium flash requires a core temperature of ________ K to create carbon.
How are sunspots in the northern and southern hemispheres different?
If the Moon rises at sunset, then its phase must be ________.
Contrast main sequence stars of type B and G.
What makes the surface of Mimas so striking?
Why were the two Keck 400" telescopes placed together atop Mauna Kea?
Contrast the brightest stars of young open and old globular clusters.
How does gravitational lensing let us find massive dark objects?
Unlike Jupiter and Saturn, at Uranus and Neptune the ________ rotates the slowest.
The relation between the Doppler shift of galaxies and their distances is called
________.
What two regions of the electromagnetic spectrum are best utilized by ground-based
astronomers, and why?
The inclusion of all known dark matter still increased the density to only ________ of
the critical density.
Contrast the sidereal and solar days.
When do spring tides occur? How much tidal variation is noted?
The last quarter moon rises tonight about midnight; when will it rise, and what will its
phase be tomorrow night?
How is the Schwartzschild radius calculated from the mass of a star?
How do head-tail radio galaxies reveal their motion?
Is the cosmological red shift really a velocity of a given galaxy?
