Solar Vocabulary
Solar System
Stars 101
Star Patterns
Seeing Stars
100
Star
What is a huge ball of very hot gases in space?
100
Rotation
What is "to spin around an axis?"
100
Yellow
What is the color of stars with medium temperature?
100
Galileo
Who is the first one to study star patterns?
100
Luminosity
What is the amount of energy and heat that radiates into space?
200
Planet
What is a large body that revolves around a star?
200
Revolution
What is "to travel in a closed path (around the sun)?"
200
Red
What is the color of stars with the coolest temperature?
200
Earth's rotation
What makes the stars appear to move?
200
Magnitude
What is the amount of light given off (brighter when hot)?
300
Constellation
What is a pattern of stars that form an imaginary picture or design in the sky?
300
Axis
What is an imaginary line that runs through the center of the Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole?
300
Blue
What is the color of stars with the hottest temperature?
300
Orion
What constellation has the shape of a hunter in Greek myths?
300
Refracting telescope
What type of telescope uses lenses to collect light to show an image?
400
Galaxy
What is a grouping of gas, dust, and many stars plus any objects that orbit those stars?
400
Endless numbers
What is the number of stars in the universe?
400
Helium and Hydrogen
What is a star made up of?
400
Ursa Minor
What is the constellation that looks like Ursa major only smaller?
400
Reflecting Telescope
What type of telescope uses mirrors to collect light to show an image?
500
Universe
What is everything that exists in space?
500
Milky Way
What is the name of our galaxy?
500
Brightness, size, temperature, mass
What are 4 ways to classify stars?
500
Ursa Major
What is a constellation that the Big dipper belongs to?
500
Optical telescope
What type of telescope gather light from celestial objects to produce an image?
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