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The apparent change in position of an object due to a change in the position from which it is viewed is called
What is Parallax?
100
The name of the first stage in the development of a star where there is a cloud of dust and gas is
What is nebula?
100
The number of constellations
What is 88?
100
The region would our sun be located in on the H-R diagram.
What is the main-sequence
100
The four branches of earth science are
What is oceanography, geology, meteorology, and astronomy?
200
The distance light travels in one year is called
What is light-year?
200
The process in which hydrogen nuclei combine into larger helium nuclei known as?
What is nuclear fusion
200
The second brightest star in a constellation is called
What is the beta star?
200
They type of stars generally located in the bottom left portion of the H-R diagram are known as
What is white dwarfs?
200
He was the first astronomer to use a telescope to observe the night sky
How is Galileo?
300
Astronomers can determine what using parallax shift
What is its distance from earth?
300
A relatively cool, large, luminous, non-main sequence star know as
What is super giant?
300
A pattern of stars in the sky is called
What is a constellation?
300
The following stars have the apparent magnitudes of 3, 0, -3, the dimmest star is
What is 3
300
The apparent shift in the wavelength and color of a star as it moves toward or away from Earth is known as
What is the Doppler Effect?
400
If the foreground star is farther from the earth, the parallax shown against the distant stars is going to be what?
What is less?
400
The nearest star to Earth is
What is the Sun
400
Astronomers label the stars in a constellation by
What is the Alpha and Beta Stars?
400
The following stars have the apparent magnitudes of 3, 0, -3, the brightest star is
What is -3
400
The theory that describes the stars that move away and have a red shift
What is the Big Bang Theory?
500
The distance between two viewing locations when measuring parallax is known as
What is the baseline
500
The three basic types of galaxies are
What are elliptical, spiral, and irregular?
500
Name one of the three stars that make up the ‘Summer Triangle’
What are Deneb, Altair, and Vega?
500
The brightness of a star as seen from Earth is known as
What is apparent magnitude?
500
It plots the temperature of a star against their absolute magnitude
What is the H-R diagram
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