A Star is Born
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
A Star's Life
Way Out There!
Out Of This World
100
Pockets of matter that form the beginning of stars.
What are protostars?
100
This characteristic used to determine a star's color.
What is temperature?
100
The explosion of a star.
What is a Supernova?
100
This is the name for a huge collection of stars.
What is a galaxy?
100
This is the distance that light travels in 1 year.
What is a Light Year?
200
The Earth and eight other planets revolve around this star.
What is the sun?
200
Stars come in these 5 colors.
What are blue, blue-white, yellow, orange-red, and red?
200
This is what a star becomes when its outter layers cool and the light reddens.
What is a Red Giant?
200
Our solar system belongs to this gigantic cluster of stars (also the name of a yummy candy bar).
What is the Milky Way?
200
The sum of everything that exists.
What is the Universe?
300
Stars form from these huge clouds of gas and dust.
What are Nebulas?
300
The amount of light a star actually gives off.
What is absolute magnitude?
300
A cool, darkened star that is dead.
What is a Black Dwarf?
300
A star's apparent mangitude depends on 2 things.
What is its absolute magnitude and its distance from Earth?
300
The invisible object in space where the gravity is so strong that nothing can escape it.
What is a Black Hole?
400
Stars with the lowest temperature shine with this color light.
What is red?
400
This is the measure of how bright a star appears to be.
What is apparent magnitude?
400
A very dimly lit star that is running out of fuel.
What is a White Dwarf?
400
Galaxies can be classified into these 3 groups.
What are spiral, irregular, and elliptical?
400
This kind of star wears glasses.
What is a Movie Star???
500
The 5 stages of a stars "life".
What are birth, growth and development, middle age, old age, and death?
500
These are the 4 ways that stars differ.
What brightness, size, temperature, and color.
500
Stars produce energy by converting this gas into helium.
What is hydrogen?
500
This is the measure of a star's brightness as seen from Earth.
What is apparent magnitude?
500
The Milky Way is this type of galaxy.
What is a spiral galaxy?
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