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A huge ball of burning gases that produces light and heat
What is a star?
The stage our sun is in right now.
What is the main sequence stage?
A cluster of stars held together with gravity
What is a galaxy
The color of the hottest stars
What is blue?
The units that astronomers would use to measure the distance between Earth and the Andromeda Galaxy.
What are light years?
A cloud of gases and dust from which a new star is formed.
What is a nebula
Everything that exists, including all matter and all energy.
What is the universe?
Stars are made of these materials
What is gas and dust?
*Daily Double*
a group of stars that form a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named after its apparent form or identified with a mythological figure.
This is what we refer to as the brightness of the star.
What is the luminosity?
According to the Big Bang Theory, the universe is continuing to do this.
What is expand?
The planet that is closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
The fastest thing that we know of in the universe
What is light?
This is the process that fuels stars.
What is nuclear fusion?
The galaxy we live in.
What is the Milky Way?
Two elements that are present in all stars.
What are hydrogen and helium?
Every galaxy has one of these in its center.
What is a black hole?
The planet that is closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
*Daily Double*
How bright a star appears from a certain distance when compared to every other star at that same distance.
The diagram used to classify stars.
What is Hertzsprung-Russell?
The gravitational force between two planets is dependent upon these two things.
What are the mass of the objects and the amount of distance between the two objects?
Scientists believe this is the number of years ago that the Big Bang was.
What is 13.8 billion years ago?
James Webb and Hubble are two types of these.
What are telescopes?
The name of a well known star, but also the name of a Harry Potter character.
What is Sirius?