Famous Stars
This star is without a doubt the brightest star in our sky
What is the Sun?
This is the letter spectral classification for stars similar to our Sun.
What are G type stars?
This is the evolutionary state that all stars spend the most time in.
What is the main sequence?
Knowing a star's brightness and its distance would allow you to uncover this 3rd property.
What is luminosity?
One way to form this exotic object is during the death of extremely high mass stars, but there's also a supermassive one of these in the center of our galaxy.
What is a black hole?
This famed star in the constellation Orion, is a red supergiant star
What is Betelgeuse?
These lettered spectral types correspond to stars with the hottest surface temperatures.
What are O type stars?
When a star like the Sun evolves off the main sequence and begins fusing hydrogen to helium in a shell outside the core, the star is on its way to becoming one of these.
What is a red giant?
If you measured the stellar parallax of a star, you could figure out this other stellar property.
What is distance?
This method of detecting exoplanets has been the most successful (in terms of # of planets detected) to date
What is the transit method?
This star is currently famous for being the closest known star to the Sun
What is Proxima Centauri?
This lettered spectral type corresponds to a star whose spectra has spectral lines from molecules.
What are M type stars?
A sun-like star will end its life by ejecting its outer layers which can temporarily be seen as this type of glowing remnant.
What is a planetary nebula?
Estimating a star's color can give you an estimate of this stellar property.
What is temperature?
Studying stars arranged in this type of grouping or gravitationally bound collection is a valuable way to learn about stellar evolution.
What is a (stellar) cluster?
This famed star is the brightest star in the night sky for observers on the northern hemisphere. It lies in a constellation that is supposed to represent one of the loyal hunting dogs of Orion.
What is Sirius?
This lettered spectral type star has the strongest hydrogen lines in its spectra.
What are A type stars?
Once a high mass star has fused up to iron in its core, it is literally just seconds away from this catastrophic process.
What is a core collapse supernova?
Observing stars in binary systems is critical for the measurement of this stellar property.
What is mass?
Past this theoretical boundary during our Solar System's formation is where we predict the Jovian planets were forming.
What is the frost or snow line?
This is the name of the first sun-like star that was found to have an exoplanet around it.
Who is 51 Pegasi?
These stellar spectral letter types, not part of the original 7, are now used to represent ultra faint 'failed stars' known as brown dwarfs.
What are L and T types?
A high mass star that is about 15 solar masses will likely leave behind this compact object long after it dies.
What is a neutron star?
Watching a star slowly appear to pass behind our Moon is one of the (most complicated) ways you could assess this stellar property.
What is stellar size/radius?
If you add enough mass to a white dwarf you could get this very luminous event that is often used as a standard candle to measure vast distances.
What is a type 1a SN?