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1) Intersteller matter - answer raw material for the formation of stars
2) accelerating expansion - answer 1998 unexpected theory
3) positron - answer anti-electron
4) radio telescope - answer used to discover the background radiation
5) carbon fusion - answer nuclear reaction that distinguishes high from
low mass stars
6) accertion - answer rocky-metallic grains sticking together
7) supernova - answer produces elements more massive than iron
8) birth of a star - answer hydrogen fusion begins in core of star
,9) stellar iron core - answer cause of a supernova
10) expansion of space - answer reduces thetemperature of the
universe
11) exponential decay - answer used to determine the age of the
earth
12) neutrino - answer small-mass neutral particle
13) helium-4 - answer nucleus produced in hydrogen fusion
14) steady state theory - answer assumes universe is infinitely old
15) radioactivity - answer source of energy to melt earth's interior
16) formation of atoms - answer event that released the cosmic
background radiation
17) cosmic background radiation - answer temperature of 3k
18) outgassing - answer responsible for most of earth's atmosphere
19) plate tectonics - answer responsible for earthquakes
,20) white dwarf - answer eventual fate of our sun when fuel is
complete depleted
21) atmospheric oxygen - answer produced by photosynthesis
22) nucleosynthesis - answer term for the creations of chemical
elements
23) chemical differentiation - answer caused by the melting of the
earth's interior
24) nubular hypothesis - answer believed responisblee for the
formation of the solar system
25) red giant - answer what the sun will become after core
hydrogen is depleted
26) hoyle - answer coined term big bang on bbc radio
27) wegner - answer proposed the theory of continental drift
28) penzias - answer discovered the cosmic background radiation
29) gamow - answer was the first to preict the cosmic background
radiaton
30) dicke - answer was the second to predict the cosmic background
radiation
, 31) penzias - answer won nobel prize in physics
32) hoyle - answer associated with the steady state theory
33) gamow - answer was the first to predict that the early universe
was nearly pure hydrogen and helium
34) dicke - answer initated a program at princeton to find the
cosmic background radiaton
35) penzias - answer employed by bell labs
36) galileo - answer showed that the milky way was a disk of stars
37) newton - answer developed the theory of gracity accepted in the
19th century
38) hubble - answer was the first to show that other galaxies existed
39) eddington - answer was the first to interpret the redshift-
distance relationship
40) democritis - answer said nothing exists except atoms and the
void
41) newton - answer his theory suggested that light was an
electromagnetic wave