Characteristic of Stars/Sun
Kinds of Stars
Constellations and stargazing
Star Groups
Other Space Objects
100
The brightness of a star
What is magnitude?
100
Stars that regularly or repeatedly change in magnitude
What is a variable star?
100
the scientific study of the stars and heavenly objects
What is Astronomy?
100
Contains only two stars, which they revolve around each other
What is a binary system?
100
An irregularly shaped rock made of metal, rock, and dust
What is an asteroid?
200
how a star looks to us
What is apparent magnitude?
200
A cloud of interstellar gases and debris
What is a nebula?
200
the teaching of the positions of the sun, moon, planets, and stars
What is astrology?
200
Small star groups that have three or four stars
What are multiple stars groups?
200
Icy chunks of frozen gases, water, dust that orbits around the sun over and over again
What is a comet?
300
True brightness of a star
What is absolute magnitude?
300
A star that rapidly spins on its axis
What is a pulsar?
300
If a object is moving away from Earth, its colors wavelengths become longer and the color shift more towards red
What is redshift?
300
A group of several thousand to millions of stars
What is a globular system?
300
A rocky object in space smaller than a asteroid
What is a meteoroid?
400
a scale witch measures the brightness of a star with negative and positive numbers
What is the Hipparchus scale?
400
When a star blows up and can cause death
What is a supernova?
400
Breaks down the light given off by a star into all its colors
What is a spectroscope?
400
Has more than thirty galaxies, including the Milky Way, which then they form a cluster
What is the Local Group?
400
A type of rock that hits the Earth's surface
What are meteorites?
500
the apparent movement of a star
What is a parallax?
500
"New" but not actually new
What is a nova?
500
When the Great and little Bears seemed to revolve around the Polaris.
What is a circumpolar constellation?
500
The type of galaxy that the Milky Way is
What is the barred galaxy?
500
A crater that scientists believe they have found a meteorite crater
What is the Barringer crater?
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