Stars
Celestial Bodies
Galaxies
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
100
A large, cool star in its 3rd stage of life.
What is a red giant?
100
This heavenly body is 1/400 the size of our sun.
What is the moon?
100
The number of major arms the Milky Way contains.
What is 4?
100
Stars are born from these types of matter found in nebulae.
What is gas and dust?
100
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are planets in our _______.
What is solar system?
200
Brighter stars have these numbers on the absolutely magnitude scale.
What is lower/smaller numbers?
200
Because of apparent magnitude, this star appears to be the brightest.
What is the sun?
200
Bright spots of light seen in a galaxy that appears to be one big star.
What is a globular cluster?
200
How bright stars appear from earth.
What is apparent magnitude?
200
An apparent shift in the position of an object when viewed from different locations.
What is a parallax?
300
Pulsars are a spinning version of these.
What is a neutron star?
300
Friction with the earth's atmosphere causes these to ignite, and are called "shooting stars."
What is a meteor?
300
The Milky Way's halo is located outside this spiral galaxy component.
What is the disk?
300
A group of stars close together relative to other stars, but not as tightly grouped as a globular cluster.
What is an open cluster?
300
Type of chart that measures temperature and brightness.
What is an H-R diagram?
400
Like stars, this is the hottest color flame.
What is blue flame?
400
This has a fixed orbit around the earth every 76 years.
What is Haley's Comet?
400
A bright collection of stars in the center of a spiral galaxy's arms.
What is the bulge?
400
For main sequence stars, both brightness and _____ increase at the same time.
What is temperature?
400
These elements are gases that fuse into each other to create massive amounts of energy in a stars 2nd stage of life.
What is hydrogen and helium?
500
The name of the star closest to in our solar system.
What is Proxima Centauri?
500
The overwhelming force in a black hole that causes even light to be unable to escape.
What is gravity?
500
Everything that exists.
What is the universe?
500
If something is 2 astronomical units from the earth, it is this many light minutes away.
What is 16.8?
500
A meteor that does not completely burn up in the earth's atmosphere, part of which hits the earth.
What is a meteorite?
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