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1. How many official constellations are there?

2. What does Gibbous mean? (As opposed to Crescent)

3. When light bends as it travels through glass or water

4. What are the four gas giants?

5. What is a set or group of stars?

6. Every _____, the Sun converts 700 million tons of hydrogen into 695 million tons of helium

7. How man kilometers away from Earth is the Sun?

8. the square of the distance

9. The belt of rocks in between Mars and Jupiter which contains billions of rocks

10. elliptical

11. An ancient method of studying the stars that is not consistent with modern science

12. What is 'Umbra' Latin for?

13. How can the moon be described between a Full Moon and its Third Quarter?

14. What type of eclipse is created when the Moon blocks the light of the Sun, casting a shadow on the Earth? (The Moon is in between the Earth and the Sun.)

15. One of the first to disbelieve Geocentrism, proposing in 1543 a sun-centered (heliocentric) model

16. What do we call the second phase of the moon's cycle when it is next to the earth, facing the sun and appears half illuminated from our perspective?

17. The earth moves slightly on its axis, like a spinning top makes a greater movement other than its constant rotation. What is this called?

18. Stars that appear brighter are about 50/50 closer or far but ________.

19. they are essentially falling

20. When magnetic field lines tangle and snap, emitting energy and material into space on a widespread scale, like a hurricane

21. A gaseous soup of charged particles

22. What do we call the first half of the moon's cycle when it appears to be growing?

23. How can the moon be described between a New Moon and its Second Quarter?

24. What are the four rocky planets?

25. Magnetic fields are similar to a very tightly wound _____ and contain a lot of energy

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