Star Systems
Parts of a Star
Formation of a Star
Deaths of a Star
What is a star?
100
Our star system is called the solar system because of this star
What is the Sun?
100
The center of a star where nuclear fusion occurs
What is the core?
100
The amount of time needed to create a star
What is 10 million years?
100
Low mass stars cool to become cold, black stars made of what element
What is helium?
100
The shape of a star
What is spherical?
200
The smallest and dimmest of the stars in Alpha Centauri
What is Alpha Centauri C?
200
The layer that we can see
What is the photosphere?
200
A nebula that forms many stars
What is a stellar nursery?
200
A white dwarf is created by the death of what type of star
What is an Average Mass Star?
200
Stars are held together by what force
What is gravity?
300
In this star system, there are two stars
What is a binary star system?
300
The third layer from the center of the star
What is the convective zone?
300
Used to measure the dimensions of nebulae
What are light years?
300
A neutron star can be created by the death of what type of star
What is a High Mass Star?
300
Lightning and neon signs are examples of this state of matter
What is plasma?
400
The closest star system to us
What is Alpha Centauri?
400
You can see this layer of the Sun during a solar eclipse
What is the corona?
400
A hot, dense core caused by spinning gas
What is a protostar?
400
When the outer layers of a star are expelled, it creates this kind of shockwave
What is a supernova explosion?
400
The way we see the energy released from nuclear fusion in the star's core
What is as light?
500
This star is one of the closest stars to the Sun, and has similar properties to the Sun, but is not its "stellar sibling"
What is Alpha Centauri A?
500
These dark and cool areas on a star are caused by magnetic fields
What are sunspots?
500
Stars require this amount of mass (in kg) for their formation
What is at least 1.6 x 10^29 kg of hydrogen?
500
This phenomenon is formed when the gravity of a single point is so strong that light cannot escape
What is a black hole?
500
This is the processing of smaller atoms joining together to create heavier atoms
What is nuclear fusion?