Vocab
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The SUN
Stars + More
Galaxies
100

A group of stars, gas, and dust. 

What is a Galaxy?

100

A device that can measure height and find star location and degrees.

What is an astrolabe?

100

 The sun will die by________.

What is becoming a red giant?

100

The hottest star color is__________. 

What is a white star?

100

____________ holds a galaxy together.

What is gravity?

200

The distance light travels in one year.

What is a light-year?

200

A device that measures measures the angle between the horizon and a point in the sky. 

What is a sextant?

200

 A sunspot is _______.

A cooler, darker spot  on the sun.

200

A star can die by__________.

What is a supernova, a black hole, or a dwarf star?

200

Galaxies contain ___________.

What are stars, dust, gas, planets, rocks, and ice?

300

A place where stars form.

What is a nebula?

300

A device that uses mirrors or lenses to make things look closer. 

What is a telescope?

300

The layers of the sun are ________.

What are the photosphere, chromosphere, and corona? 

300

A star can live__________.

What is trillions of years?

300

The different types of galaxies are___________.

What are spiral, elliptical, and irregular galaxies?  

400

A dead star that is a deep area in space-time that has such a strong gravitational pull that nothing escapes.

What is a black hole?

400

The large twin telescopes in Hawaii.

What are the Keck telescopes?

400

 the sunspot pattern occurs every________. 

What is 11 years? 

400

A star dies by running out of__________.

What is hydrogen and helium?

400

____________ is at the center of almost every galaxy?

What is a black hole?

500

A certain area of the sky, used to find stars easier.  

What is a constellation? 

500

 The Keck telescopes built_______. 

What is Mauna Kea, the dormant volcano?

500

A solar eruption from the sun.

What is a prominence? 

500

A supernova can last___________.

What is up to months?

500

A galaxy stays together without a black hole at the center because____________.

What is the objects have their own gravity?

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