Star Basics
Star Energy
H-R Diagram
Star Life Cycles
Universe
100
The closest star to Earth.
What is the sun?
100
Young stars will have more of this element
What is Hydrogen?
100
Most stars are part of this group
What are Main Sequence stars?
100
The space dust and gas that is the birth place of stars
What is a nebula?
100
A huge collection of billions of stars held together by gravity
What is a galaxy?
200
The name for patterns of stars in the sky
What are constellations?
200
The electromagnetic radiation with the lowest frequency and energy
What are radio waves?
200
The 2 main things compared on this diagram
What are temperature and brightness?
200
The next phase the sun will enter after the main sequence
What is red giant?
300
Stars put out light energy because of this process
What is nuclear fusion?
300
The hottest stars are this color
What is blue-white?
300
Red giants are not part of the main sequence because they are very bright but also this
What is cool?
300
Astronomers use this unit to measure the distance between stars and galaxies
What is the light year?
300
Edwin Hubble's discovery
What is the red shift, or that galaxies are moving away from each other or that the farthest galaxies are moving the fastest
400
Luminosity and magnitude refer to this characteristic of a a star
What is brightness?
400
A Constellation DAILY DOUBLE!!!
400
What is bright?
400
This is created when a massive supergiant star collapses and disappears from space.
What is black hole?
400
The age of the universe
What is nearly 14 billion years?
500
The Range of radiation put out by a star is called this:
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
500
This instrument shows the chemical composition and temperature of stars. It was also used to show that galaxies are traveling away from each other
What is a spectroscope?
500
The oldest stars on the diagram.
What are white dwarfs?
500
What feature of a new star determines how long a star will live and how it will end its "life"
What is its starting mass?