Astronomy
This is a cloud of gas and dust that formed our solar system.
What is nebula?
What is hydrogen fusion
What is 2 hydrogen fuses into helium and energy
What is term used for brightness of a star in relation to the sun?
What is Luminosity
Sirius B is what type of star?
What is a white dwarf
Barnard's star has a temperature of about ____
What is 3000 degrees kelvin
Which star has the most mass and luminosity?
What is Deneb
How many spectral lines are seen in Hyrdogren
What is 4 lines
What is the heaviest element a supergiant can synthesize before a supernova
What is Iron (Fe)
The outer planets are also known as _______ giants.
What are Gas Giants
The center of our solar system.
What is the Sun?
Orbiting the sun defines this time period (part a), and the correct term is ______________. (part b)
What is a year(a) and a revolution or revolving (b)
Which star is in a later phase, Deneb or Procyon B?
What is Procyon B
Name a Giant star found on the HR Diagram
What is Arcturus, Aldeberan, Pollux, Polaris
What does a blueshifted galaxy mean
What is it is moving toward us
Which is bigger, our galaxy or solar system.
What is our galaxy?
Which star color indicates the hottest temperature?
What is Blue
How old is the universe?
approx 13.8 billion years old
A star and the objects that orbit it is called this
What is a solar system
Name 1 piece of evidence that supports the big bang theory
What is Background Cosmic Radiation, red shift, universe is expanding
These are the gas giants/outer planets- in order from closest to furthest
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
What is the luminosity of Vega?
What is a 100
What is the speed of light?
186,000 miles per second
One force that keeps the moon orbiting Earth.
What is gravity?
What has more energy, Ultraviolet radiation or Infrared Radiation?
What is Ultraviolet Radiation
This is what causes the moon to have no weather.
What is the lack of atmosphere (or no atmosphere)?