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As there are no rules- we can ask what we like! Keeping it astronomy based would be good though...
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As there are no rules- we can ask what we like! Keeping it astronomy based would be good though...
BINGO! S'pose that was kinda easy though....

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hmmm

What are the seven spectral classes for stars
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What are the seven spectral classes for stars
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What is the sun's spectral type?

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What is the colour of the sun
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Hey that's a nifty idea. :P You were right, but I'd never heard of the "two girls" thing.

Yellow

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yellow? I thought it was white? or green? or ARGHHH


Hmmm
surface?
It's about 4'000 5'000 degrees C I think :-k... I've got a mind block #-o


I'm bad with theese # ones.... #-o
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Hmmm
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It's about 5'000 degrees C I think... I've got a mind block #-o :-k
5,800 C (or is it K? H-R diagrams have always been in C, right?)

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It probobly fluctuates more than 273degrees anyway.....

What does SOHO stand for?
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It probobly fluctuates more than 273degrees anyway.....

What does SOHO stand for?
Solar Observations.....and....ummm... Heliospheric Orbit?

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"The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory"
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Hey that's unfair...they derived two letters from one word. :P

Who was credited with the invention of the telescope?

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galilo gallii (hard word to spell at 12:30am)

Who was credited for the reflector telescope?
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Who was credited for the reflector telescope?
Actually, it was patented by Hans Lipershey (wrong spelling no doubt), Galileo merely refined his concept. The idea of using two lenses in unison had been thought of many centuries (or millenia) before.

Not quite sure about the reflector, my first guess would be Sir Isaac Newton?

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champion_munch beat you to the crunch

anyway I better go to bed now *yawns*
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