Vocab
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
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| show | the luminous envelope of a star from which its light and heat radiate.
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| show | the rarefied gaseous envelope of the sun and other stars. The sun's corona is normally visible only during a total solar eclipse when it is seen as an irregularly shaped pearly glow surrounding the darkened disk of the moon.
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| show | the continuous flow of charged particles from the sun that permeates the solar system.
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| show | a spot or patch appearing from time to time on the sun's surface, appearing dark by contrast with its surroundings.
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| show | the state of being important or famous.
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| show | a brief eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface, associated with sunspots and causing electromagnetic disturbances on the earth, as with radio frequency communications and power line transmissions.
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| show | a group of stars forming a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named after its apparent form or identified with a mythological figure. Modern astronomers divide the sky into eighty-eight constellations with defined boundaries.
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| Binary star | show 🗑
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| show | the magnitude of a celestial object as it is actually measured from the earth.
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| show | the magnitude (brightness) of a celestial object as it would be seen at a standard distance of 10 parsecs.
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| show | a contracting mass of gas that represents an early stage in the formation of a star, before nucleosynthesis has begun.
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| show | The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model for the universe from the earliest known periods through its subsequent large-scale evolution
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