Constellations
Life Cycle of Stars
Galaxies
Other Terms
100
The amount of stars in the Big Dipper
What is seven?
100
The first stage of a star
What is a nebula?
100
The Milky way is this type of galaxy
What is spiral?
100
a region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation can escape.
What is black hole?
200
the shoulder in the constellation Orion
What is betelgeuse?
200
a star that suddenly increases greatly in brightness because of a catastrophic explosion that ejects most of its mass.
What is Supernova?
200
the closest galaxy to us
What is Andromeda?
200
the color of the hottest stars
What is Blue?
300
the brightest star in the sky at night
What is Sirius?
300
a star so dense that on Earth one teaspoon would be a billion tons
What is Neutron Star?
300
what people believe to be the way the universe was made (it has a tv show about it)
What is The Big Bang Theory
300
the magnitude of a celestial object as it would be seen at a standard distance of 10 parsecs.
What is Absolute Magnitude?
400
the constellation with the brightest star
What is Canis Major
400
what forms when a low-mass star has exhausted all its central nuclear fuel and lost its outer layers as a planetary nebula
What is White Dwarf?
400
when two galaxies merge together
What is galactic merger?
400
A system of two stars that revolve around a common center of gravity.
What is Binary?
500
The largest constellation by area which is 3.16% of the sky.
What is Hydra?
500
The name of the black hole in the center of the Milky Way
What is Supermassive Black Hole Sagittarius A*?
500
A galaxy that does not have the clearly defined shape and structure of typical elliptical, lenticular, or spiral galaxies.
What is Irregular Galaxy?
500
A term used to describe matter in the universe that cannot be seen, but can be detected by its gravitational effects on other bodies.
What is Dark Matter?
M
e
n
u