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1: Science and the Universe - A Brief Tour
The study of objects that lie bey...,
A proposed explanation that can b...,
A large body that consistently pr...
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2: Observing the Sky - The Birth of Astronomy
To change velocity to speed up sl...,
Hipparchus measure of how bright ...,
Ancient belief that the positions...
27
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3: Orbits and Gravity
The measure of the motion of a ro...,
The point in its orbit where a pl...,
The point in its orbit where an e...
28
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4: Earth, Moon, and Sky
Circle of latitude above south po...,
The angular distance north or sou...,
Alternate rising and falling of s...
26
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5: Radiation and Spectra
General term for waves including ...,
In physics describes the action o...,
Nonexistent substance said to fil...
35
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6: Astronomical Instruments
Combination of multiple radio dis...,
Of telescope point where the rays...,
Magnifying lens used to view the ...
25
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7: Other Worlds - An Introduction to the Solar System
A stony or metallic object orbiti...,
A small body of icy and dusty mat...,
Gravitational separation of mater...
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8: Earth as a Planet
A force of 100 000 newtons acting...,
Igneous rock produced by the cool...,
Movement caused within a gas or l...
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9: Cratered Worlds
The lighter heavily cratered regi...,
Latin for sea dark relatively smo...
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10: Earthlike Planets - Venus and Mars
The process by which the greenhou...,
Term for geological features that...
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11: The Giant Planets
Chemical changes caused by electr...,
The radiation emitted by charged ...,
Occurrence every 175 years when o...
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12: Rings, Moons, and Pluto
An orbital condition in which one...,
The heating of a planet or moon s...,
Galilean moon with highest level ...
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13: Comets and Asteroids - Debris of the Solar System
A stony or metallic object orbiti...,
The region of the solar system be...,
A small body of icy and dusty mat...
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14: Cosmic Samples and the Origin of the Solar System
Randomly occurring meteors not as...,
The gradual accumulation of mass ...,
A planet orbiting a star other th...
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15: The Sun - A Garden-Variety Star
An area on the sun where magnetic...,
Light radiated by atoms and ions ...,
The part of the solar atmosphere ...
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16: The Sun - A Nuclear Powerhouse
Process by which heat is directly...,
Movement caused within a gas or l...,
Breaking up of heavier atomic nuc...
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17: Analyzing Starlight
A measure of the amount of light ...,
An object intermediate in size be...,
Difference between the magnitudes...
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18: The Stars - A Celestial Census
Two stars that revolve about each...,
A binary star in which the plane ...,
A plot of luminosity against surf...
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19: Celestial Distances
A star that belongs to a class of...,
A graph that displays the time va...,
A classification of a star accord...
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20: Between the Stars - Gas and Dust in Space
The cycling of mass in and out of...,
Atomic nuclei mostly protons and ...,
The region of ionized hydrogen in...
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21: Birth of Stars and Discovery of Planets Outside the Solar System
A planet orbiting a star other th...,
Large cold interstellar clouds wi...,
Luminous knots of gas in an area ...
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22: Stars from Adolescence to Old Age
A loose group of young stars whos...,
One of about 150 large spherical ...,
A nearly explosive ignition of he...
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23: The Death of Stars
The upper limit to the mass of a ...,
A gas that resists further compre...,
A pulsar that rotates so quickly ...
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24: Black Holes and Curved Spacetime
The disk of gas and dust found or...,
A region in spacetime where gravi...,
Concept that a gravitational forc...
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25: The Milky Way Galaxy
The central round part of the mil...,
Non luminous mass whose presence ...,
The mass in the milky way that ex...
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26: Galaxies
A galaxy whose shape is an ellips...,
A constant of proportionality in ...,
A rule that the radial velocities...
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27: Active Galaxies, Quasars, and Supermassive Black Holes
Galaxies that are almost as lumin...,
Galaxies that house active galact...,
An object of very high redshift t...
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28: The Evolution and Distribution of Galaxies
Slow moving massive particles not...,
The assumption that on the large ...,
An energy that is causing the exp...
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29: The Big Bang
Idea that physical laws must be t...,
The theory of cosmology in which ...,
A model in which the universe exp...
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30: Life in the Universe
Organic compounds that are the mo...,
The multidisciplinary study of li...,
Evidence of the presence of life ...
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