Exoplanets
Exoplanets II
Types of Stars
How Stars Work
Star Birth
100
Goldilocks Zone
What is an area surrounding each star where temperatures are just right for water to exist as a liquid on a planet's surface?
100
When the first exoplanet was found.
What is 1995?
100
This is the color of the hottest stars.
What is blue?
100
The only place fusion can occur.
What is a star's core?
100
The closest star-forming region to Earth
What is the Orion nebula?
200
The Kepler-62 planet that is the same size as Mars.
What is Kepler-62c?
200
The number of exoplanets that have been found.
What is 1,000?
200
Largest stars in the universe
What are red supergiants?
200
The number of stars that lie within 12.5 light years of the sun.
What is 32?
200
This formation can be found in the Carina Nebula: Mystic _______
What is Mountain?
300
The year in which an Italian scientist predicted the existence of exoplanets.
What is 1584?
300
The person who first predicted the existence of exoplanets.
Who is Giordano Bruno?
300
This star makes up Orion's foot
What is Rigel?
300
A star that varies in both size and brightness
What is a variable star?
300
These may eventually form from proplyds
What are planets and moons?
400
Year in which the first photograph of a exoplanet was taken.
What is 2004?
400
The largest known exoplanet is __ times bigger than Jupiter.
What is 30?
400
The people who discovered a way to classify stars by brightness and color.
Who are Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Russel
400
The distance of a light year
What is 10 trillion kilometers or 6 trillion miles?
400
The approximate number of stars within the Orion Nebula
What is 2,000?
500
The brightest known star with an exoplanet.
What is Fomalhaut?
500
The distance to the Kepler-62 system.
What is 7 million billion miles?
500
The brightest stars in the universe
What are red supergiants?
500
In the visible light spectrum, the color that has the longest waves.
What is red?
500
How long it can take for a solar system to form in a nebula. Hint: First two digits of the number of points this is worth plus many zeros.
What is 50 million years?
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