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A Solar Eclipse!!
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A meteor shower gets its name from the constellation it appears to emanate from. The meteors of course do not originate in the...
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Globular Cluster.
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One year, or approximately 365.25 solar days (the Julian year). The Earth orbits the sun counterclockwise as seen from the...
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According to NASA, space begins about 100 km above the surface of the earth, where the atmosphere is considered to be null. The...
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california would probly see a full moon to because the sun hits the moon in the same spot everywhere
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Forever because the "Pegasus galaxy" is a fictional galaxy in some sci-fi Stargate story. However, it's location is based on a...
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it rotates,but we only see portion of the rotation
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Increasing is "Waxing". Decreasing is "Waning".
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The moon has no atmosphre- how is this important? this simple means that the moon experiences no form of erosion(agents of...
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NITROGEN, N2 , ABOUT 78% See the Related Questions link for more information about the composition of the Earth's atmosphere.
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Air contains about 20.95% oxygen at sea level. The remainder is 78% nitrogen 0.93% argon, 0.038% carbon dioxide, trace amounts...
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"The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is the major body recognized by astronomers worldwide (formed in 1919), and perhaps...
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A star is a massive sphere of plasma compressed to incredible heat and pressure by gravity. Stars are made mostly of hydrogen,...
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The moon is pretty much the only astromical object (except earth) a person can look at and see detail on without some optical aid.
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Perhaps "complete vacuum" or "hard vacuum" or the "vacuum of deep space" will suffice. Even in the vast "nothingness" between...
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AnswerI don't think magnetism is affected by glass.Edit:Magnetic field are unaffected by glass. Magnets and electrical fields in...
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As of November 2009, astronomers had listed 3,648 known comets (580 unclassified). This is a small fraction of the number that...
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A pulsar is a hightly magnetized neutron star that generates a "beam" (or "flashlight beam) of detectable electromagnetic...
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No there is no Air in space therefore sound cannot travel. Sound cannot travel through a vacum.
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A Lunar eclipse
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the star that is the centre of our planetary system is the sun. it gives us the necesary light and it provides the vital sunlight...
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Big Bang is a cosmological model of the initial conditions and subsequent development of the universe. It is supported by the...
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Super-Earth was discovered by John Travolta and Olivia Newton John sometime in the 1990s while they were filming the movie...
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The answer is right there in your question. "Light year" is the distance that light travels through space in one year. In one...
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The earth orbits the sun at 67,062 miles per hour.
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No. The moon looks bright to us due to it's reflection of rays of light from the sun.
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asteroid meteorites bolide
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A solar year is the time that it takes the earth to complete one cycle around the sun. A calendar year is 365 days, or 366 in...
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Gosh, the difference is remarkable! Sirius is actually a binary star! Two stars that are in close orbit and look like one light...
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Closest star is Alpha Proxima. Approx. 4 light years away. Ummm, it wouldn't help if the sun went out.
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In a car travelling 140 km/h it would take you 123 years. A space shuttle going at ~288000 km/h would take you about a month.
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The word astronomy literally translates to "law of the stars". The word "nomos" which is translated as "law" means law,...
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Sirius is a binary star system Sirius A is about 1.7 times larger than our Sun Sirius B is about 0.0084 times the size of the...
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There is no question that there are many "human" needs that are being short-changed. But there is value to very many worth-while...
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Stars are formed when elevation gass escapes the sun. They will then catch heat from planets, the planets orbit will then place...
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Outer space technology(satellite,man at the moon) *Cell phone *faster airplanes *Smooth Weapon
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Yes it is. Our own Sun is just one of billions of stars in the galaxy called the Milky Way and the Milky Way is just one galaxy...
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The moon has to be exactly lined up between you and the sun to cast its shadow on you but most of the time it is too high or low....
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Actually the Earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago, along with scientific research. There is no proof what so ever that any...
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149 597 870.691 km. is the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun. This translates into about one astronomical unit. The...
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twice as much
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There are two reasons. The first is that the Earth rotates on it's axis while the moon remains relatively still. As you know, it...
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The moon is a satellite of the Earth.
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An angstrom = 1 x 10-10 meters A nanometer = 1 x 10-9 meters you can see that a nanometer is ten times larger than an angstrom,...
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Over the next twenty years there will be a total of 17 blue moons, with an almost equal number of both types of blue moons...
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Red sky in morn, sailors take warn. Red sky at night, sailors delight. This means that because the earth rotates towards the...
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however much a fat person breathes out
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A revolution: The Earth revolves in an elliptical (oval) orbit around the Sun. This orbit is planetary; the Sun is a star, and a...
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An American team found the world's biggest meteor crater almost two kilometres deepunder the Wilkes Land region of Antarctica,...
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From new moon phase to full moon phase you see: You see the moon phrases waxing crescent, first quarter(or half moon), waxing...
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Mars is the planet in our solar system most similar to Earth.
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Our solar system's "asteroid belt" (Main Belt) is a belt of small, widely-scattered asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, where the...
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The only thing known is that the singularity was subatomic. All singularities are infinitely small. That is, they have zero...
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MercuryIn this solar system, that would be Mercury at about 88 Earth days. There have been planets discovered around other stars...
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A protosun is a sun (star) that is still forming. It takes millions of years of solar winds and gravitational forces to gather...
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The first record of rocket use was by the Chinese, shortly after gunpowder was discovered in China.
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Sputnik-1 was launched on 4 October 1957.
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AnswerWait... is the full moon the one that's all white or is that the new moon? Anyways, even if its all black I'm pretty sure...
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As far as scientific theory suggests, the Big Bang did happen about 13.7 billion years ago. See related question. NO!!! of...
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AnswerThere is a great deal of evidence starting with the observations that inspired it. Present indications are that the...
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they are all theories that look good on paper, but are difficult to demonstrate in practice.
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The sun is a renewable resource. Solar power keeps on coming no matter how much we use it. This is why we have to quickly devise...
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Just one, gravity. It pulled it's mass together and gave it it's round chape. Oh, and the impact of the asteroids poc-marking...
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Anywhere in the world after sunset, just look into the night sky when there is no cloud cover. The best time is in the winter.
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Quarks make up protons and neutrons, but, unlike protons and neutrons, quarks are not composed of any smaller particles. They are...
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1. To look at very distant objects 2. To break windows 3. To hammer nails 4. As a paperweight 5. As a baseball bat 6. As a...
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The earth spinning around on it axis one side is facing the sun which is day time while the other side is not facing the sun is...
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Space contains multiple Universe which shrinks and expands. Means that Space has multiple BigBang and Universes. (This point of...
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AnswerThe tilt of the axis gives us the seasons. If the axis were vertical, the sun would be overhead at the equator and we would...
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The moon revolves around the earth in 28 days
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By not throwing them away at escape velocity (about 2.38 km per second). The moon's gravity will pull the things back; they will...
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No one knows if there even is water on the moon
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The Sun is at the centre of the Solar System. well everyone says that but its not true the right answer is a black whole UHUM.....
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Most would call the object so described a star.
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Time travel is not possible, the future does not exist to be traveled to. So this would only happen in fiction, sorry. ok then...
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Microwaves play a huge role in space exploration and technology. There is almost nothing in outer space to block or absorb...
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The farthest (visible) star from earth is s Carinae, at 3600 PC, or about 200 light years.The actual farthest star is not visible...
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About 300 billion. And there are at least around 30 billion galaxies around the same size - do a google image search for "hubble...
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5,820.8 kilometres (3,616.89 miles)
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Yes, it does. You can watch night and day unfold on the side of the moon that we can see, as you watch the monthly phases.Yes. A...
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Well any dramatic, sudden change would destroy most life on earth, but a slow, gradual change life can cope with. Many species...
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One way is to multiply earth's radius by 2 pi. Earth's radius is 6378 km. That multiplied by 2 pi is 40,074 km.Another way is to...
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Basalts and impact created breccias.
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Newton thought it did, Einstein said the idea that matter reaches out into space and pulls things toward it was rediculous, and...
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If you get up early enough, or stay up late enough, you can see Scorpius as early as middle to late January just before sunrise...
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The sun, and our entire Solar system is all in the same galaxy called the Milky Way. Even the northstar ( Polaris ), which is 2.5...
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In the US Eastern time zone, 9 PM: The moon was a few days away from being full; it was at 60% full, with a sun-object angle of...
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The Earth takes 365.256366 days to orbit the Sun at 107,218 kph. This equates to a distance of 939,889,368 kilometers or...
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