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What is the Core?
The Center of the sun
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What is a sunspot?
A dark cool spot that can show up on the Sun.
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What is the Moon's source of light?
The Sun's light
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What is the first layer of the Moon from the outside called?
The Crust
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What is a Lunar Eclipse?
When the Moon is hidden from the sun behind the Earth.
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What is 25 million degrees Fahrenheit?
The believed temperature of the Sun's Core
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What is A couple of days or weeks?
The amount of time small sunspots can last for
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What is the Moon?
An airless ball of rock.
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What is the second layer of the Moon from the outside called?
The Mantle
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What is a Blue moon?
When a full Moon happens twice in one month.
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What is the approximate diameter of the Sun in miles?
865,000 miles
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What is Months?
The amount of time large sunspots can last for
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What is the amount of years ago that most of the moon craters were caused?
3 to 4 Billion years ago.
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What is the third layer of the Moon from the outside called?
The Partial Melt
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What is a Super Moon?
When the Moon is in orbit around the Earth and the moon moves closer to Earth the Moon appears larger then we normally see it.
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What is the number of Earths that could fit inside the sun if it were hollow?
1 million Earths
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What is the sunspot cycle?
The cycle where sunspots show up and fade.
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What is the first year the far side of the Earth was seen?
In 1959
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What is the fourth layer of the Moon from the outside called?
The fluid outer core
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What is a Blood Moon?
When the Moon gets a slight reddish tinge.
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What is the approximate number of years the Sun will burn out in?
6.5 billion years
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What is the number of years between when sunspots are common and sunspots are rare?
Eleven years
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What is the largest Moon crater that can be seen from Earth called?
Baily
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What is the very center of the Moon called?
The solid inner core
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What is a Harvest Moon?
When the Moon becomes partly yellow.
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