Catch a "wave"
"Scope" it out
Hertzsprung & Russell
Spin Around the Galaxy
I see "stars"
100
This is the portion of the electromagnetic spetrum that we can see.
What is visible light?
100
This type of telescope uses a mirror to collect and focus light.
What is a reflecting telescope?
100
These are the largest stars on the H-R diagram.
What are supergiants?
100
A pinwheel-shaped galaxy like the Milky Way.
What is spiral?
100
This is the 'power source' of brightly, shining stars.
What is nuclear fusion?
200
This acrostic helps you remember the colors of the visible light spectrum and the order in which they appear.
What is ROY G. BIV?
200
A refracting telescope uses this to collect and focus light.
What is a convex lens?
200
Our sun, along with 90% of all stars, is classified as this type of star on the H-R diagram.
What is main sequence?
200
Smaller galaxies with a random shape.
What is an irregular galaxy?
200
You might call this a 'baby star', because it means earliest form.
What is protostar.
300
This type of EMR has the longest wavelengths.
What are radio waves?
300
This famous telescope is orbiting in space and after repairs were made, has expanded our knowledge of the universe.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
300
Star color gives a clue to this.
What is temperature?
300
The distance across the Milky Way galaxy.
What is about 100,000 light years.
300
Our sun is this size of star.
What is medium-sized.
400
This is what you get when shining visible light through a prism and separating out all the different colors.
What is a spectrum?
400
This instrument is used to determine the chemical composition of stars.
What is a spectroscope?
400
The colors of stars from hottest to coolest.
What is blue, white, yellow, orange, red?
400
Distant galaxies that resemble stars, having huge black holes at their centers and glowing brightly.
What are quasars?
400
A spinning neutron star that emits a pulsating radio source. Not LGM!
What is a pulsar?
500
Lucky for us, these 2 types of electromagnetic radiation cannot penetrate our atmosphere.
What are x-rays and gamma rays?
500
The VLA is a large group of these in New Mexico.
What is a radio telescope?
500
Hertzsprung and Russell discovered that when star temperature increases......
What is brightness increases?
500
At 2.2 million light years away, it is our closest neighboring galaxy.
What is Andromeda?
500
Algol is this type of unusual star system which caused it to be named after a ghoul or ghost.
What is an eclipsing binary?
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