Stellar Magnitudes
This aspect of stars affects how bright they appear to be, regardless of their actual brightness.
What is distance?
These are origin stories any legends about constellations.
What are myths?
This element is the primary element in most stars.
What is hydrogen?
The force that causes hydrogen to condense enough to become hot and dense, beginning fusion.
What is gravity?
The largest and most massive object in the solar system; it wields strong gravity.
What is the Sun?
This aspect of stars affects how bright they actually are.
What is luminosity?
Stars in constellations appear different colors - this letter represents the bluest and hottest of these stars.
What is "O"?
This element is formed when four hydrogen atoms are fused together within a star's core.
What is helium?
How long the Sun will last past this present moment.
What is approximately 5 billion years?
What light-years measure.
What is distance (9.5 trillion km)?
This aspect of stars describes how bright they appear.
What is apparent magnitude?
Stars in constellations appear different colors - this letter represents the reddest and coolest of these stars.
What is "M"?
This layer of the Sun is at the center - the hottest, densest layer; where fusion occurs.
What is the Sun's core?
The largest stars die into this phase of intense gravity that can absorb light.
What are black holes?
This is what the sun will become after it goes nova.
What are white, then black, dwarfs?
This aspect of stars describes how bright they are from a distance of 10 parsecs.
What is absolute magnitude?
This is a pattern or shape of stars in the night sky.
What are constellations?
This is the outermost solar layer in which sunspots, prominences, and flares occur.
What is the photosphere?
Small and medium stars, such as the Sun, waft their outer layers out in this phase; less energetic than a supernova.
What is a nova?
This process forces small atoms to combine into larger atoms, converting mass into energy - possible through intense pressure and gravity.
What is fusion?
This type of star is the brightest/most luminous.
What are supergiants?
This is where every star we can easily see from Earth is.
What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
This solar layer is only visible during total solar eclipses; it shares a name with a beer.
What is the corona?
How the largest stars destroy their outer layers to leave behind their cores as either a neutron star or black hole.
What is a supernova?
Gravity condensed these clouds of gas and dust into the stars and planets; this is the first stage of every star and solar system.
What are nebula?