Telescopes
Constellations
Galaxies
Life Cycle of Stars
Misc.
100
Astronomer who made one of the first telescopes
Who is Galileo?
100
The sky is divided up into these many regions
What is 88?
100
Name of a galaxy we live in
What is the Milky Way?
100
Term for a supergiant explosion
What is a Supernova?
100
Term for the study of the universe
What is Astronomy?
200
Type of telescope that is made of a tube and two lenses
What is a Refracting Telescope?
200
The constellation that has the Big Dipper in it
What is Ursa Major?
200
This type of galaxy has a bulge in the middle and arms that wrap around the center
What is a Spiral Galaxy?
200
The first stage of the life cycle of a star (don't say nebula)
What is a Protostar?
200
Name for the North star (which stays in pretty much the same place)
What is Polaris?
300
Term for a place on Earth that has large telescopes
What is an Observatory?
300
This constellation is based on the myth of a winged horse
What is Pegasus?
300
The closest star in our galaxy
What is our Sun?
300
The stage that our Sun is currently in
What is a Main-Sequence Star?
300
The estimated age of our Sun
What is 4.6 billion years old?
400
One of the things our early astronomer saw with his telescope?
What is Sunspots on the sun, mountains on the moon, or 4 of Jupiter's moons?
400
Reason that constellations seem to move across the sky at night
What is Earth's rotation on its axis?
400
Type of galaxy that is round or "football" shaped
What is an Elliptical Galaxy?
400
Small mass stars are usually these two colors
What is Red and Orange?
400
Number of stars we can see with the naked eye
What is about 2,000?
500
The three things that a telescope does to an object
What is make the object appear closer/larger, makes the object appear brighter, and makes it easier to see details?
500
Term for a pattern of stars within a constellation
What is an Asterism?
500
Large cloud of dust and gas that can be seen in a galaxy
What is a Nebula?
500
Large Mass Stars will die and become one of these two things (tell me both of them)
What is a Neutron Star or Black Hole?
500
The final stage of a low mass star
What is a Black Dwarf?
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