Describe the life-cycle of the most massive main sequence stars.
What is a planetarium? What would a planetarium show consist of?
Describe comets and asteroids. What are their features? What do their orbits look like?
What is the importance of learning about celestial bodies?
Describe at least one research project that has been conducted on the ISS. What was the purpose of the research? If the results are known, what did the study find?
Describe the planet Saturn. What is its surface like? What is its atmosphere like? What are its major features?
Provide a brief overview the history of space exploration leading up to the ISS. Mention and describe at least three named space programs as part of this overview.
Describe (you do not need to use numbers) the most common orbital eccentricities for planets. What about other objects in the solar system?
What is Kepler’s third law? Describe what it means for objects in orbit around other objects. Explain using an example of actual orbiting objects
Describe the difficulties to human life in space caused by resource usage. What methods can be used to overcome these issues?
What causes the phases of the moon? Consider the model of the solar system while writing your answer.
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