The Sun
In this region of the sun, energy is created.
What is the core?
Using this technique, astronomers can accurately measure the distance of stars up to 100 pc away
What is parallax?
The life-cycle path followed by a star is determined largely by this feature of the star.
What is it's mass?
Visible light arranged according to wavelengths
This star pattern is produced by stars as seen from a point in space, such as the Earth.
What is a constellation?
These area of cooler temperature on the Sun's surface appear darker on imaging.
What are sunspots?
The apparent magnitude does not actually measure the brightness of the star because it does not account for this other characteristic.
What is distance?
The cloud of gas and dust form at the beginning of the life cycle of a star like our sun.
What is a nebula?
Minimum to maximum sunspots, a reversal of polarity, and minimum to maximum sunspots over a period of 22 years
What is solar activity cycle?
This explosion occurs when a large star exhausts its fuel supply.
What is a supernova?
Nuclear fusion in our sun consists primarily of this gas fusing to form helium.
What is hydrogen?
These two forces are balanced during the main sequence stage of a star, resulting in hydrostatic equilibrium.
What are gravity and thermal pressure?
This is the last visible phase that a star with the same initial mass as our sun will go through in its life cycle.
What is white dwarf?
Lowest layer of the Sun’s surface from which most of the light emitted by the Sun comes
What is the photosphere?
This loop of burning gas can erupt from the surface of a star. It loops because of the magnetic field of the star.
What is a prominence?
In this zone of the solar interior, volumes of gas carry energy to the Sun’s surface
what is the convective zone?
This is the type of emission spectrum that our sun produces, due to gasses in the atmosphere of the sun and Earth.
Pulsars form from this type of collapsed large mass star.
What is a neutron star?
Section of the H-R diagram into which about 90 percent of stars fall
What is the main-sequence
This element is the last element a large star can make via fusion and once it is made, supernova occurs.
What is lead?
Earth is bombarded with particles and radiation after violent eruptions from the Sun’s surface by this phenomenon.
What are solar Flares?
This is the type of shift an astronomer would observe is a star was moving towards the Earth.
What is blueshift
This phase of a stars life cycle occurs when the star switches from fusing hydrogen to fusing other elements.
What is Red Giant?
Small, massive, dense object that has a gravity so immense that nothing—not even light—can escape it
What is a black hole
This is the beginning mass of dust and gas just before a star ignites.
What is protostar?