A football or round shaped galaxy with no evident internal structure or arms.
What is an elliptical galaxy?
100
A star with average much closer to Earth than any other star
What is the sun
100
A large redish star late in the life of a medium sized star?
What is a red giant.
100
A small piece of rock in space that does not orbit another object
What is a meteroid
100
The name of the center of the sun.
What is the core.
200
A galaxy with arms of bright stars, dust and gas that twist outward from the center
What is a spiral galaxy?
200
Final stage in the evolution of a very massive star, where the core's mass collapses to a point that its gravity is so strong that not even light can escape.
What is a black hole
200
A gigantic explosion in which a massive star collapses and throws its outer layers into space.
What is a supernova
200
Light made by a meteoroid as it passes through Earth's atmosphere
What is a meteor
200
solar material escapes into space and flows outward through the solar system.
What is solar wind.
300
A galaxy with twisting arms extending from a centralized large bar of stars and gas
What is a barred spiral galaxy?
300
For a medium mass star, what stage will follow a red giant?
What is a white dwarf?
300
The stage in which all stars begin. This is where stars are born.
What is a nebula
300
The part of a large meteoroid that enters the atmosphere and strikes Earth's surface
What is a meteorite
300
Escape speed from the Sun
What is 618km/s
400
The smallest of galaxies and having many different shapes
What is an irregular galaxy?
400
The life cycle of a star depends on what feature of a star?
What is mass
400
A graph that shows the relationship between a star's surface temperature and absolute magnitude
What is the H-R Diagram
400
A nickname for a meteor.
What is a meteor shower?
400
The hot upper atmosphere of the Sun.
What is the solar corona
500
What is the name of our galaxy and what type is it considered?
the milky way galaxy and spiraled shape.
500
What is the longest stage for any star?
What is the main sequence stage.
500
The stage of a star where it no longer glows and is essentially a ball of coal in space.
What is a black dwarf
500
A continuous series of meteoroids passing through Earth's atmosphere