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What is true of the Moon's orbital and rotational periods?
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The ________ hemisphere of Mars is lower, smoother, and younger than the other one.
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The tendency of a wave to bend as it passes from one transparent medium to another is called:
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The sky is dark at night:
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Neutral hydrogen may be detected between the stars because it emits ________.
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When helium capture occurs with a carbon 12 nucleus, what results?
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What two energy transport mechanisms, in order from outside the core to the surface, are found in th
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As its name implies, in a(n) ________ star the protons and electrons are fused together and the char
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Today we rely largely on what technique to precisely measure distances in the solar system?
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The birthplaces of stars correspond to the ________ clouds in the interstellar medium.
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The major problem faced by optical astronomers in trying to deduce the structure of the Milky Way Ga
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Most galaxies in the Local Group are:
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The lensing of a distant quasar is produced by ________ of a foreground galaxy.
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At which stage in a Sun-like star's life is its core the least dense?
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Saturn is almost the same size as ________, but only half as dense.
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Just as a low-mass main sequence star runs out of fuel in its core, it actually becomes brighter. Ho
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In what part of our atmosphere do we live?
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The most abundant element in Saturn's atmosphere is
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The presently accepted value of the Hubble constant gives an age of:
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Which of the following is definitely NOT a dwarf planet?
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