Star Gazing
Unusual Events
Characteristics of a Star
The Life Cycle of a Star
Our Sun
100
The spiral galaxy that we live in.
What is the Milky Way?
100
The layer of a star (or our sun) where the nuclear fusion occurs.
What is the Core?
100
Process by which Hydrogen atoms join together to form Helium and produce an enormous amount of energy.
What is Nuclear Fusion?
100
Nuclear fusion is based on this element.
What is a Hydrogen?
100
Heated gas that erupts from the sun
What are Solar Flares?
200
Stars can vary in temperature, brightness, and this characteristic.
What is size?
200
Huge loops of gas that connect different sunspot regions on star (like our sun)
What are Prominences?
200
This star color would be the coolest.
What is a red star?
200
90% of all stars are in this stage.
What is a main sequence star?
200
The layer of tightly packed gas that moves energy out of the sun's core.
What is the Radiation Zone?
300
A Star's actual brightness (luminosity) if it were 33 light years from Earth.
What is Absolute Brightness?
300
A very large star (not in main sequence) with high luminosity and low surface temperature.
What is a Red Giant?
300
This star color is the hottest star.
What is a blue star?
300
This diagram shows the relationship of a stars luminosity to its surface temperature
What is the Hertzsprung-Russel (H-R) Diagram?
300
The outer layer of the sun that is only visible (from Earth) during a total Solar eclipse.
What is the Corona?
400
The brightness of a star as seen from Earth.
What is Apparent Brightness?
400
A type of star with a high temperature but low luminosity due to being the leftover core of a star.
What is a White Dwarf?
400
The two ways to characterize a star's brightness.
What are Apparent brightness and Absolute brightness?
400
The brightness of a star depends on these two characteristics.
What are Size and Temperature?
400
These are cooler regions on the Sun's surface.
What are Sunspots?
500
The visible layer of a star's (or our sun's) atmosphere that is considered to the surface.
What is the Photosphere?
500
When a Star runs out of fuel it becomes one of three entities.
What is a White Dwarf, a Neutron Star, or Black Hole?
500
What character does he play in the MCU?
Who is Thor?
500
The diagonal band on the H-R Diagram that shows increasing star brightness with increasing surface temperature.
What is Main Sequence?
500
There is a star that has the same name as this character.
Who is Beatlejuice (Betelgeuse)?