Star Characteristics
The coldest color of star, its main sequence stars are known for having long life spans.
What is red?
The combining of atoms to create new elements, this process takes place deep in the core of a star.
What is nuclear fusion?
You can find the star characteristic diagram on this page of your reference table.
What is page 15?
The color of the Sun.
What is yellow?
The school mascot.
What is the cougar?
The distance from the Earth to the Sun, used to measure distances.
What is an astronomical unit (AU)?
This is the stage of the Sun’s life cycle where it is expected to swallow Mercury, Venus, and Earth as it grows in size.
What is a red giant?
These dead stars are known for being hot but are not large enough to be very luminous.
What is a white dwarf?
The constant barrage of charged particles from the Sun, often described as “solar weather”.
What is solar wind?
The school principal.
Who is Mr. Straub?
This is the term astronomers use for how much light a star emits.
What is luminosity?
Before the Sun was a main sequence star, it was considered this kind of “baby” star.
What is a protostar?
This is the name of the star that is most like the Sun in terms of temperature and luminosity.
What is Alpha Centauri?
Occasionally, these outbursts of energy mess up radio and TV communications on Earth.
What are solar flares?
The cause of the fire on 9/18.
What is a garbage can fire?
These are patterns of stars in the night sky that seem to create images.
What are constellations?
While white dwarfs live a very long time, when they die they become this.
What is a black dwarf?
This is the most luminous star of your reference table and one of the brightest stars in the sky.
What is Rigel?
These patches on the Sun are associated with changes in its magnetic field.
What are sunspots?
The name of the school librarian.
Who is Ms. Montague?
Nearly half of all stars in the universe are believed to occur in these star systems. Astronomers use these systems to determine the mass of other stars.
What are binary stars?
After supergiants explode, they either become neutron stars or this.
What is a black hole?
You can never find stars in these two colors of the rainbow.
What are green and purple?
This is the upper atmosphere of the Sun, visible during a solar eclipse.
What is the corona?
The proper spelling of my name.
What is K, O, S, T, U, S, I, A, K?