A type of energy that has medium wavelengths and is a moderate temperature.
What is Visible Light?
100
The process that produces energy in a star.
What is nuclear fusion?
100
The age of our universe.
What is 13.7 billion years old?
100
This determines the stages a star will go through.
What is the mass or size?
100
Light is also known as energy, or _____________________?
What is Electromagnetic Radiation?
200
Use the electromagnetic spectrum to determine what type of electromagnetic radiation has shorter wavelengths.
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What is Orange Visible Light?
200
Medium sized stars will fuse up to what element?
What is carbon?
200
The first two elements created in the early stages of the big bang.
What is hydrogen and helium?
200
What our sun will turn into once 20% of it's hydrogen supply has been used up.
What is a red giant?
200
This person discovered that all distant galaxies were red-shifted.
Who is Edwin Hubble? Last name is fine.
300
What elements are in this star?
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What are Hydrogen and Carbon?
300
The theory that explains how stars change over time.
What is Stellar Evolution?
300
What spectrum is cosmic background radiation in?
What is the microwave spectrum?
300
What is left of the most supermassive stars at the end of their life cycle.
What is a black hole?
300
How many years did it take after the initial expansion for our solar system to form?
What is 9.5 billion years?
400
Why are there no gamma ray telescopes on the ground?
Because gamma rays can't make it through the atmosphere.
400
What is the most abundant element in stars?
What is Hydrogen?
400
Which galaxy spectrum provides evidence of the big bang theory of expansion?
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What is Galaxy B?
400
When a star leaves the main sequence (or "adult stage") what happens to it's temperature?
The temperature decreases.
400
If a star has carbon in it's core is it:
A.) small size star
B.) medium
C.) massive
D.) medium or small
E.) medium or massive
What is E.) medium or massive
500
What color will a yellow chair look like under green light?
What is black?
500
How long does a small mass star stay at stellar equilibrium?
What is 100s of billions of years?
500
A scientists monitors a distant galaxy. He notices that the furthest spectral line is at 440nm. When the scientist checked back at the galaxy after 10 years the furthest spectral line was at 450nm. After another 10 years what do you predict the furthest spectral line will be at (nm)?
What is MORE than 460nm?
500
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What is during/right before the red giant or red super giant stage?
500
What are the two elements in the ceiling lights that absorb light to cause black lines in it's spectrum?