Stars
The star closest to the earth besides the sun is ____?
Proxima Centauri
The familiar shape within Ursa Major.
The big dipper
The little dipper also forms this constellation.
Ursa Minor
The sun is _______ from the earth
The three basic types of galactic shapes are _____, ____, and _____.
Elliptical, spiral, irregular
The brightest star in the night sky is ___?
This woman was chained to a rock to be eaten by a whale, she also has a galaxy named after her.
Andromeda
The ____ is the part of the sun's atmosphere closest to its surface.
The hottest region of the sun's atmosphere is the ____
Corona
In this galaxy, spiral arms attached to a straight bar that runs through a galaxy.
The pole star, also known as the north star is really named ____.
Polaris
This constellation contains the brightest star in the sky.
Canis Major
The most well known star formation in the southern hemisphere is ____.
The southern cross
Dark patches on the sun's photosphere are called ____
sunspots
The cluster of 40 galaxies in which we find earth is called ______.
The local group
The brightest star in the constellation Perseus is ____.
Algol
Cygnus, the swan, has this star formation inside.
Northern Cross
This constellation's tail curves around the Little Dipper.
Draco the dragon
______ magnitude is the measurement used to describe the brightness of a star as it appears from earth.
Apparent
Large clouds of gas and dust floating around in space are called ___.
Nebulae
The brightest star in the constellation Leo is___.
Regulus
This thing is a pair of stars that travel together and rotate around each other.
Binary star
Streams of gas erupting from the chromosphere and returning in looplike fashion are called ____
solar prominence
High-speed particles that travel outward from holes in the sun's atmosphere are called
solar winds
Supernova