Electromagnetic Radiation
Telescopes
Classifying Stars
Lives of Stars
Odds and Ends
100
Electromagnetic radiation that can be split into colors
What is visible light?
100
a device that collect and focus light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation
What is a telescope?
100
the color of cool stars
What is red?
100
a large cloud of gas and dust
What is a nebula?
100
the distance that light travels in one year
What is a light year?
200
Electromagnetic radiation from space that astronomers "listen" to
What is radio waves?
200
a telescope that focuses light through lenses
What is a refracting telescope?
200
Three characteristics of stars
What is color, temperature, luminosity and size?
200
the part of a nebula that can become a star
What is a protostar?
200
a star system that contains two stars
What is a binary star system
300
Electromagnetic radiation that can give sunburns
What is ultraviolet radiation?
300
a telescope that focuses light with a mirror
What is a reflecting telescope?
300
stars that can supernova
What are giant stars and supergiants?
300
how long a star lives and what it becomes depends on
What is mass?
300
the brightness of the star as seen from earth
What is apparent brightness?
400
energy that travels and spread out through space in the form of waves
What is electromagnetic waves?
400
building used to house one or more telescopes
What is an observatory?
400
blue-white
What is the color of the hottest star?
400
needed for a star to be born
What is nuclear fusion?
400
three types of galaxies
What are spiral, elliptical, and irregular?
500
the distance between the crest of one wave and the crest of the next wave
What is a wavelength?
500
Famous reflecting telescope in space
What is the Hubble Telescope?
500
a device that splits light into color
What is a spectograph?
500
three things a star could become at the end of its life
What is a white dwarf, neutron star and black hole?
500
a star that pulses radio waves
What is a pulsar?
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