Definitions
Definitions
Definitions
Definitions
Definitions
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A huge ball of gas held together by gravity
What is a star
100
Super Large Stars
What is a Super Giant Star?
100
Group of stars, dust, and gases held together by gravity
What is a galaxy?
100
Far away objects that look like stars
What is a quasar?
100
Disc shaped galaxies
What is a Spiral Galaxy?
200
Round, oval, small galaxies
What is an elliptical galaxy?
200
1 of 2 stars revolving around the common center of mass
What is a binary star
200
Galaxy that doesnt have a defined shape
What is an irregular galaxy
200
Popular galaxy
What is the milky way
200
Galaxy with a bar like bulge in the center
What is Barred Spiral Galaxy
300
Apparent groups of stars originally named from mythical characters
What is constellations
300
A massive star that has collapse to such a small volume, nothing can escape
What is a black hole
300
Emits radio pulses in very regular periods
What is pulsars
300
Much fainter than main sequence stars
What is white dwarfs
300
Clouds of dust
What is a Nebula
400
Developing star thats not hot enough to engage in nuclear fusion.
What is protostar
400
Sun produces energy
What is nuclear fusion
400
Death of a star
What is a nova
400
Death of a giant star
What is a supernova
400
The distance light travels in a year
What is a light year?
500
Slight shifting in apparent position of a nearby star
What is a parallax?
500
The brightness of a star on earth
What is absolute magnitude?
500
Shows the relationship between the absolute magnitude and temperature of stars
What is H-R diagram
500
Earths twin sister
What is Venus
500
Named after the greek god of the sky
What is Uranus?
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