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FAQ for Astronomy

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1. What are the objects contained in the solar system?
2. What is the structure of the Sun?
3. What are the major solar activities?
4. What are classifications of the eight planets?
5. What are the characteristics and nature of Mercury?
6. What are the characteristics and nature of Venus?
7. What are the characteristics and nature of Mars?
8. What are the characteristics and nature of Jupiter?
9. What are the characteristics and nature of Saturn?
10. What are the characteristics and nature of Uranus?
11. What are the characteristics and nature of Neptune?
12. What are the characteristics and nature of Dwarf planets?
13. What is a calendar system? And what are its basic elements?
14. How many calendar systems are available?
15. Why are the month lengths of a solar calendar so irregular?
16. Why is there a leap year? And what is its regularity?
17. Why are the months of a lunar calendar called synodic months? Why are there differences in the length of a month?
18. Does full moon always occur on the fifteenth day in a lunar month?
19. What are the so-called 24 solar terms?
20. Why is there a leap month for the agricultural calendar?
21. How many ways were the beginning of a year calculated in ancient times? And when are their respective starting dates?
22. What is a Julian Period?
23. What is a Ganzhi Period?
24. What are the time systems?
25. What is a sundial? How many types of sundials are there?
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