You're a Star
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This Life We Live
In Our 'Hood
Round and Round We Go
100
A cloud of dust and gas from which stars form.
What is a nebula?
100
The two elements involved in basic nuclear fusion.
What is hydrogen and helium?
100
The longest stage in a star's life cycle.
What is the main sequence?
100
The object that is composed of 99% of the matter in our Solar System.
What is the Sun?
100
The point in a planets orbit that is closest to the Sun.
What is perihelion?
200
The force that pulls dust and gas together to begin stellar formation.
What is gravity?
200
The equation stating that small amounts of matter can be converted into large amounts of energy.
What is E = mc^2?
200
An enlarged star that is now fusing Helium into heavier elements.
What is a red giant?
200
The 3rd planet from the Sun.
What is Earth?
200
The shape in which planets orbit the Sun.
What is an ellipse?
300
A "pre-star", just before nuclear fusion begins.
What is a protostar?
300
A neutral particle given off as energy during the proton-proton chain.
What is a neutrino?
300
The most massive stars in the Universe will end their lives as these.
What is a black hole?
300
Another name for the solid, rocky planets of the inner solar system.
What are the Terrestrial planets?
300
The full name of the astronomer who developed the laws of planetary motion.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
400
This also increases when pressure builds up.
What is temperature?
400
The exact isotope formed as a result of the proton-proton chain.
What is Helium-4?
400
A small, hot, dense core left over from a small to medium sized star?
What is a white dwarf?
400
Another name for the gas giant planets of the outer solar system.
What are the Jovian planets?
400
Another name for Kepler's 2nd Law.
What is the Law of Equal Areas?
500
Also known as the "Pillars of Creation", this nebula is known as one of the most beautiful ever observed.
What is the Eagle Eye Nebula?
500
The type of nuclear fusion that takes place in stars much larger than our Sun.
What is the Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen Cycle?
500
Known as the "star killer", fusing this element results in a net loss of energy.
What is iron?
500
Objects located outside the orbits of the 8 planets.
What is Trans-Neptunian Objects?
500
The law describing the relationship between distance from the Sun and orbital period.
What is Kepler's 3rd Law?
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