Solar System Formation | What Happened in the big bang? | Big Bang PART 2 | Star Life cycles |
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What is Element Composition / Distribution?
Carbon, 83.4–0.5% Hydrogen, 10.4–0.2% Nitrogen, 0.4–0.2% Oxygen, 1.0–0.2%. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the entire solar system, which is common in all planets and stars
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What is The Big Bang theory
The phenomenon that created all living things.
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What is Emission Spectra?
It's a star fingerprint.
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What is the HR diagram?
In main sequence what diagram are stars based on
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What is Galaxy?
Not only was this word used in a popular Super Mario game duology, but this is also the term that refers to a cosmic space with solar systems that reside inside of it.
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What is Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
CMBR
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What is Meteorites?
Pieces of an asteroid.
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What is a supernova?
Stellar black holes form when the center of a very massive star collapses upon itself. What does this collapse cause
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What is Planetesimals?
Unusual rocky celestial objects that can be measured in a few meters or many kilometers.
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What is Redshift/Blueshift
Another phenomenon that refers to this term when an object is redder to you when it's closer, or turns blue when it gets farther.
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What is Accretion Disks?
Without this, the elements wouldn't collide together and that means the planets wouldn't form.
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What is Suns and Stars?
Nuclear fusion occurs here
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What is Protoplanets?
A large body of matter in orbit around the sun or a star and thought to be developing into a planet.
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What is Lunar Rocks
Rocks found on the moon and used to estimate the earth total age.
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What is Red Giant?
A large star usually in more red color.
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What is Heavy Bombardment?
A hypothesized event thought to have occurred approximately 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago, also often referred to in war using Mortars.
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What is Planetary Accretion
If the temperature isn't reached then the protostar will change into a brown dwarf star. This is known as what?
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What is Planetary nebula?
A dwarf becomes this after it sheds its outer layers.
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