mint chocolate chip
Cake batter
Superman
Penultimate Pecan
Cookies and cream
100
An apparent shift in the position of an object when viewed form different locations
What is parallax
100
A giant explosion in which a massive star collapses and throws its outer layers into space
What is supernova
100
A large cloud of dust and gas in interstellar space; a region in space where stars are born and explode at the end of their lives
What is nebula
100
What is the theory that states the universe began with a tremendous explosion 13.7 years ago
What is the Big Bang Theory
100
Lines that are made when certain wavelengths of light, or colors are given off by hot gases
What are emission lines
200
The distance that light travels in one year about 9.5 trillion kilometers
What is a light year
200
The location on the H-R diagram where most stars lie
What is main sequence
200
A collection of stars dust Nd gas bound together by gravity
What is a galaxy
200
What is the study of religion, properties, processes, and evolution of the universe
What is cosmology
200
what are the three types of galaxies
What is spiral, elliptical, and irregular
300
The brightness of a star that would have at a distance of 32.6 light years from Earth
What is absolute magnitude
300
A diagram that shows the relationship between a star's surface temperature and absolute magnitude.
What is H-R diagram
300
An object so massive that Evan light cannot escape it's gravity
What is black hole
300
What is a very luminous, star-like object that generates energy at a high rate; they are thought to be the most distant objects in the universe
What is a quasar
300
where globular clusters are located
What is in a spherical halo
400
The brightness of a star as seen from the earth
What is apparent magnitude
400
A small hot dim star that is the leftover center of an old star
What is a white dwarf
400
A rapidly spinning Neutron star that emits rapid pules of radio and optical energy
What is pulsar
400
What is a group of stars that are close together relative to surrounding stars
What is an open cluster
400
this is left over from the Big Bang Theory and is proof that the Big Bang theory happened.
What is cosmic background radiation
500
What is the band of colors produced when white light passes through a prism
What is spectrum
500
A large reddish star late in its life cycle
What is a red giant
500
A star that has collapsed under gravity to the point that the electrons and protons have smashed together to form neutrons
What is neutron star
500
Tight group of stars that looks like a ball and contains up to one million stars
What is globular cluster
500
the Latin word for cloud
What is nebula
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