Low and Medium Mass Stars
High Mass Stars
Vocabulary
supernovae
Eclipses
100
The remains of a star's core
What is a White Dwarf?
100
The shortest living part of the cycle.
What is a super giant?
100
An object whose gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light can escape
What is a Black Hole?
100
14 billion years ago
When did the first stars become supernovas?
100
When one planetary body align perfectly with the shadow of another body.
What is an eclipse?
200
The biggest part in the stars life cycle.
What is a Red Giant?
200
By burning more hydrogen.
What causes the high mass stars' life cycle to be so short?
200
The small, dense remains of a high-mass star after a supernova. Supernova: The brilliant explosion of a dying supergiant star.
What is a Neutron star?
200
1054 AD
What year did the first supernova get recorded?
200
The two primary eclipses that could occur here at the Sol System.
What is a lunar eclipse and a solar eclipse?
300
The First part in the stars life cycle
What is a protostar?
300
The part of the cycle where a new Protostar can be formed
What is a Super Nova?
300
The blue-white hot core of a star that is left behind after its outer layer have expanded and drifted into space.
What is a White dwarf?
300
What has the first recorded supernova turned into?
Crab Nebula
300
Solar eclipses last __ than a lunar eclipse.
Shorter
400
The Part of the life cycle that can become a new star.
What is a planetary nebula?
400
The last part in the life cycle in high mass stars
What is a Black hole?
400
A large cloud of gas and dust in space, spread out in an immense volume.
What is a Nebula?
400
Why will our star, the Sun, will not turn into a supernova?
The sun is not big enough to create enough gravity needed to create a supernova.
400
These are the two types of shadows created during an eclipse.
What is an umbra and a penumbra?
500
Seven
How many stages there are in the life cycle.
500
One billion years.
How long is the high mass stars life cycle?
500
A force that pulls things in space and on earth together or closer
What is gravity?
500
Instead of becoming a supernova, our Sun will turn into what when it dies?
White Dwarf
500
Eclipses usually occur every __.
18 Months.
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