The Lives of Stars
Death of Stars/Galaxies
Galaxies
Expanding Universe
100
A large cloud of gas and dust spread out in immense volume.
What is a nebula.
100
The remains of high mass stars.
What is a neutron star
100
Name the 3 types of galaxies.
What is spiral, elliptical, and irregular.
100
The theory that says that the universe formed in an instant, billions of years ago, in an enormous explosion
What is the big bang theory
200
A contracting cloud of gas and dust with enough mass to form a star.
What is a protostar?
200
the blue-white core of a star that is left behind cools and becomes a...
What is white dwarf
200
A star system with two stars/double stars.
What are binary stars?
200
small asteroid like and comet like bodies formed by gas and dust in the outer parts of the disk
What is planetesimals
300
How long a star lives depends on what?
What is it's mass?
300
an object with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape.
What is a black hole.
300
A star system in which one star periodically blocks the light from another.
What is an eclipsing binary?
300
A large cloud of gas and dust such as the one that formed our solar system
What is a solar nebula
400
What happens when a supergiant explodes after it runs out of fuel.
What is a supernova?
400
What types of galaxies have stars that form in them?
What is spiral and irregular galaxies
400
This star cluster has a loose, disorganized appearance and contain no more than a few thousand stars
What is an open cluster
400
matter that does not give off electromagnetic radiation, cannot be seen directly.
What is dark matter
500
Name the life cycle of a star
What is Nebula-protostar-star-red giant-planetary nebula-white dwarf-black dwarf Nebula-protostar-star-supergiant-supernova-neutron star or black hole
500
Distant, enormously bright objects that look like stars
What are quarsars
500
These clusters are large groupings of older stars. They are round and densely packed with stars.
What is a globular cluster.
500
What will happen to our universe in the future?
What is it will keep expanding forever.
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