Characteristics of Stars/The Sun
Kinds of Stars
Constellations/ Stargazing
Star Groups
Other Space Objects
100
This star is 93,000,000 miles away from the earth
What is the sun
100
Stars that flare up, change in brightness, then slowly go back to their original brightness and size
What is Variable stars
100
the telescope was invented by this person
What is Galileo
100
a huge star system that contains millions or even billions of stars and covers light years of space
What is galaxy
100
Asteroids
What is irregularly shaped pieces of rock, metal, and dust
200
brightness of a star
What is magnitude
200
Nova
What is an existing star that suddenly flares up hundreds to thousands of time brighter that normal
200
A telescope that breaks down light given off from the star into all its colors
What is spectroscope
200
a globular cluster
What is a group of several thousand to a million stars
200
planets were most asteroids orbit
What is Mars and Jupiter
300
How the sun and other stars produce their light/energy
What is nuclear fusion
300
a cloud of interstellar gases and debris
What is nebula
300
when wavelengths become longer and the color shifts towards the red end of the spectrum
What is red shift
300
the smallest star group
What is binary system
300
Meteoroid
What is a rocky object usually smaller than an asteroid
400
the process of nuclear fusion
What is the inside of a star is so hot that atoms fuse together and the star releases energy in the form of heat and light
400
black hole
What is when a supergiant star cant stop collapsing and disappears from space
400
the most famous star in the little dipper
What is North star
400
the milky ways cluster group
What is local group
400
comet
What is icy chunks of gases, water, and dust that orbits the sun
500
Gases the sun is made up of
What is hydrogen, helium, and other elements
500
one teaspoon of its core would weigh 1 billion tons
What is neutron star
500
why astronomers call certain constellations, circumpolar constellations
What is certain constellations seem to orbit the north star
500
the percent of stars that travel in goups
What is 85%
500
the crater believed to be a meteorite crater in Arizona
What is Barringer crater
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