Stars
Galaxies
Atmosphere
Test
Misc.
100
A small,hot star consisting of a hot, dense core contracting under the force of gravity.
What is a White Dwarf?
100
actual amount of light a star gives off
What is absolute magnitude?
100
dark, cooler, areas of the Sun's surface
What is sunspots?
100
apparent shift in position of an object when viewed from different places; used to determine distances
What is parallax?
100
Constellations in the northern sky that circle around Polaris
What is a circumpolar constellation?
200
groups of stars whose position in the sky seem to change as Earth moves.
What is a constellations?
200
amount of a star's light observed on Earth
What is apparent magnitude?
200
layer of the sun's atmoshpere above the photosphere
What is a chromosphere?
200
classification of about 90 percent of the stars
What is main sequence?
200
What indicated a stars temperature?
What is color?
300
earliest stage of a star's formation
What is a nebula?
300
distance that light travels in one year
What is a light year?
300
outer layer and largest part of the Sun's atmoshpere
What is a corona?
300
large, cool expanding star in which helium fuses to form carbon
What is giant?
300
A medium temperature star?
What is yellow?
400
relatively cool star that has expanded to more than 700 times as large as our sun
What is a supergiant?
400
object so dense that nothing, including light, can escape it
What is a black hole?
400
lowest layer of the Sun's atmosphere that gives off light
What is a photosphere?
400
produced from an explosion that occurs when a star's core collapses.
What is a supernova?
400
They are huge, arching columns of gas (from the sun).
What is prominences?
500
a star in which only neutrons can exist in its core
What is neutron star?
500
a large group of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity.
What is a galaxy?
500
explanation for the beginning of the universe
What is the Big Bang Theory?
500
two or more stars revolving around one another.
What is a binary system?
500
Gases near a sunspot brighten suddenly, shooting outward at high speeds. (violent eruptions)
What is flares?
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