Types of Stars
Small coolest stars at 2,500 K. One example is Proxima Centauri.
What are Red Dwarfs?
The type of land formation that Mauna Kea is.
What is a dormant volcano?
Vast interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium, and plasma that is the "nursery of star formation."
What is a Stellar Nebula?
What classification of star is our sun?
What is a yellow dwarf?
The best and most powerful space telescope in the world. Launched in December 2021, it uses infrared light allowing it to see 13.5+ billion years back in time to the first stars and galaxies.
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
Very bright stars that burn out fast. The hottest stars, one example is Rigel at 11,000 K.
What are Blue Giants?
Why Mauna Kea is a great place to observe stars.
Why is the atmosphere very thin and dry? And why is it far from city lights?
The violent explosion of a star at the end of it's life. Core collapse in massive stars or runaway fusion in white dwarfs.
What is a Supernova?
Though it appears yellow due to atmospheric scattering, the sun is actually this color.
What is white?
Launched on April 24, 1990, by the Space Shuttle Discovery. It is a pioneering NASA optical observatory that revolutionized astronomy.
What is the Hubble space telescope?
A type of red star that have a large radius and emit a huge amount of light. One example is Arcturus.
What are Red Giants?
The time domed roofs open so that telescopes can be used.
When is the sun dips below the sea at sunset?
A short lived glowing shell of ionized gas and dust ejected by a dying low to intermediate mass star.
What is a planetary nebula?
How the sun generates energy.
Why does it fuse hydrogen into helium in it's core?
A type of telescope that uses mirrors and is shorter in length due to reflecting light at various angles.
What is a reflector?
The very largest stars. They can be up to 100 thousand times brighter than our sun. An example is Betegeuse.
What are Red Supergiants?
If measured from the seafloor this is actually the tallest mountain in the world.
What is Mauna Kea?
A region of space with gravitational pull so intense that not even light can escape. Typically formed by the collapse of a massive star.
What is a black hole?
The estimated age of the sun.
What is 4.6 billion years old?
A type of telescope that is long to allow light to flow in a straight path to the eyepiece. Uses a refracting lense. Large and expensive.
What is a refractor?
Small, but much hotter than some other Dwarfs. An example is Vega.
What is a White Dwarf?
Who created all the stars in the universe and knows them all by name.
Who is God?
The incredibly dense, city sized remnant left behind after a massive star explodes as a Supernova.
What is a neutron star?
The current life cycle of the sun is in the main sequence phase and will eventually turn into these stars.
What is a red giant and then white dwarf?
A type of telescope that uses both lenses and mirrors one one compact package. Smaller and more portable than other telescopes of it competes with.
What are catadioptrics?