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Astronomy!!!!
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Astronomical Unit 149 597 871 kilometers This is the average distance between the earth and the sun
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Light Year The distance traveled by light in one Earth year This is a unit of length
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Alice and Bob https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKTv- BDZ8Os https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKTv- BDZ8Os Why is it dark at night? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2VOMn VyY1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2VOMn VyY1s Is that star really there? Why are we looking through time when we look at the stars at night?
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Nebula Also called diffuse nebula. a cloud of interstellar gas and dust
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Stars A celestial body that generates light and other radiant energy and consists of a mass of gas held together by its own gravity in which the energy generated by nuclear reactions. Plasma. Any of the celestial bodies visible at night from Earth as relatively stationary, usually twinkling points of light.
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Betelgeuse – taken with Hubble Telescope
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Documentaries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcfN_HN4T Vg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcfN_HN4T Vg National Geographic Hubble History (2009) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vOU6- 1yNZs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vOU6- 1yNZs Distances and Planets like ours http://www.msn.com/en- ca/news/photos/spectacular-photos-from- space/ss-BBjBTyI?ocid=iehp#image=1 http://www.msn.com/en- ca/news/photos/spectacular-photos-from- space/ss-BBjBTyI?ocid=iehp#image=1 Spectacular photos from space.
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Necessities for Life http://www.space.com/25530-earthsize- exoplanet-kepler-186f-habitable- discovery.html http://www.space.com/25530-earthsize- exoplanet-kepler-186f-habitable- discovery.html http://www.nasa.gov/ames/kepler/nasas- kepler-discovers-first-earth-size-planet-in-the- habitable-zone-of-another-star http://www.nasa.gov/ames/kepler/nasas- kepler-discovers-first-earth-size-planet-in-the- habitable-zone-of-another-star
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