ASTRON 99415

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subject Authors Eric Chaisson, Steve McMillan

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How do sound and light waves differ?
From hottest to coolest, the seven letters for the star types are ________.
Most of the planets found orbiting other stars are similar to Jupiter, but ________ in
temperature.
Why is it difficult to directly measure the size of a star's disk from Earth?
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Why do rich clusters of galaxies contain a larger fraction of ellipticals than normal?
Why did Hubble have to rely on Cepheids to find the distance to M31, unlike Shapley's
use of RR Lyrae stars with the Milky Way?
Why can many more people witness a total lunar eclipse than a total solar eclipse?
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What is the anticipated interaction of the Milky Way and Large Magellanic cloud?
Contrast the densities of the terrestrial and jovian planets.
According to the reanalysis of the Apollo seismic data in 2011, what is the structure of
the lunar interior?
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Regular atoms did not show up in the universe until when?
Where is the most obvious example of a mountain chain built by continental collision in
plate tectonics? Which plates are involved in this head-on collision?
How is energy transfer from the solar interior to surface similar to a process in Earth's
atmosphere?
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Explain how the Zeeman effect allows us to study stellar magnetic fields.
Will our Sun become a supernova? Why?
As one of the strongest sources of radio waves in the solar system, the ________ has an
observed period of about a day.
In what ways are the magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune unusual?
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If the corona is so hot, why do we have to wait for a total solar eclipse to see it?
The mare are really seas of long since hardened ________, a dark volcanic rock that
also makes up the ocean basins of Earth.
Almost all the stars we see around us with the naked eye are relatively ________ in age.

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