STARS
What are the different colors of stars?
Stars can be many colors. White, blue, yellow etc
What is a light year?
distance that light travels in one year
How many constellations are there?
48
What is the Milky way Galaxy?
group of stars to which our solar system belongs to
Most of the stars you can see without a telescope belong to which galaxy?
Milky Way Galaxy
What is a star made mostly of?
Hydrogen and Helium gas
how does a star's life begin
when a cloud of gas and dust is drawn together by its own gravity.
The constellations are named after the Ancient _____?
Greeks
What is the Universe
Everything and everyone that exists
When is Ms. Kat's birthday
What is magnitude?
Brightness of a star
the cloud of gas and dust that begins a stars life is called what?
A nebula
This galaxy is shaped like an oval and is the most common galaxy
Elliptical galaxy
A star with a magnitude of 1 is higher than a star with a magnitude of 0?
False
How bright a star actually is
What is a red giant?
star that has expanded after using up it's hydrogen
How many groups are galaxies split into?
3
This galaxy has no regular shape and look like fuzzy clouds in space
Irregular Galaxy
A star is how many degrees Celsius
15,000,000 degrees Celsius
What is the name of the brightest star in the Night Sky?
Sirius
what is a black hole?
Region in space with tremendous gravity caused by the collapse of a huge star.
What are the names of the 3 galaxies?
Elliptical, irregular and spiral
This galaxy is the shape of a pinwheel. They are the least common but are very bright
Spiral Galaxy
What is Sirius's apparent magnitude
-1.4