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14 Cards in this Set
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white dwarf
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small,white,hot,dense star
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magnitude
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brightness of a star
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universe
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everything taht exists
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galaxy
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Group of billions of stars
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apparent magnetude
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How bright a star looks
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red giant
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star whose size expands after it uses up its hydrogen
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light-year
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distance light travels in one year
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constillation
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pattern of stars
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super giant
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one of the largest stars, formed when a star expands after using up its hydrogen;larger than a red giant
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absulute magnitude
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how bright a star really is
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milky-way galaxy
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the group of stars to which our solar system belongs
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nebula
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cloud of gas and dust in space
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fusion
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process by which particals combine to form one
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supernova
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brilliant explosian of a supergiant
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