Types of Stars
A large ball of gas held together by gravity with a core so hot that nuclear fusion occurs.
What is a star?
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Galaxy Earth resides.
What is the Milky Way?
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Helps you see things far away in space.
What is the telescope?
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Fills the night sky.
What is a star?
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A process that occurs when the nuclei of several atoms combine into one larger nucleus.
What is nuclear fusion?
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A star that has the coolest temperature is ___________ in color.
What is red?
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Different types of galaxies.
What is 3?
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Spreads light into different wavelengths.
What is the spectroscope?
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In the night sky, it is bright and white.
What is Moon?
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Regions of strong magnetic activity on the Sun.
What are sunspots?
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The star that is the hottest in temperature is ________ in color.
What is blue-white?
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Oddly shaped galaxies.
What are irregular galaxies?
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Measures how bright an object is from Earth.
What is apparent magnitude?
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Brightest star is called.
What is Sirius?
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Apparent surface of a star.
What is the photosphere?
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A dense core of neutrons that remains after a supernova is.
What is a neutron star?
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Shaped like a football.
What are elliptical galaxies?
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A diagram that plots luminosity vs. temperature of stars.
What is the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram?
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Name for solar wind.
What are Northern Lights?
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Contains hundreds of thousands of stars.
What are globular clusters?
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A hot, dense, slowly cooling sphere of carbon.
What is a white dawrf?
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Galaxy is the Milky Way.
What are Spiral galaxies?
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A shift to a different wavelength?
What is called the Doppler shift?
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Expanding cast off matter of a white dawrf.
What are planetary nebulae?
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Stars spend most of their lives on this.
What is the main sequence?
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