Types of Stars
Stars form when gravity compresses these areas of interstellar dust and gasses.
What is a Nebula?
Neutron Stars almost made entirely out of this subatomic particle.
What are Neutrons?
What color are Stars that are super hot and luminous?
This is the term given to fledgeling stars that have not yet achieved nuclear fusion and form into flattened discs of gases with a hot central core heated by gravitational compression of gases.
What is a Protostar?
The type of stars that create Neutron Stars and Black Holes are called
What is a High-Mass Star?
These small hot stars represent the remains of small to medium size stars like our Sun that have left the main sequence and had their cores crushed by gravity to roughly the size of Earth.
What are White Dwarfs?
What kind of star is Betelgeuse?
What is a Red Supergiant?
This is the purpose of the phrase "Oh be a fine gal/guy, kiss me"
What is mnemonic device to help remember order of stars from hottest to coolest
This occurs at roughly 10-20,000,000 degrees celsius and signals the "birth of a star."
What is the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium?
A Neutron Star that spins super fast and blinks in brightness
What is a Pulsar?
What is the event that is able to create heavy elements like the Calcium in your bones, Iron in your blood, etc.
What is a Supernova?
This is the name given to stars that are in the portion of their lives in which they fuse Hydrogen into Helium. The majority of stars on the H-R diagram fall into this catagory.
What are Main Sequence Stars
The disc of material that created the Sun and Planets in our Solar System is called:
What is a Protoplanetary disc?
Would an object near a Black Hole have time move faster or slower?
What is slower?
What kind of object is created after the death of a Low-Mass Star and has a White Dwarf in the middle?
What is a Planetary Nebula?
A freshly created Neutron Star with an unusually strong magnetic field is called:
What is a Magnetar?
These are "failed stars." They never had enough mass or create enough heat to achieve nuclear fusion.
What are Brown Dwarfs?
The phenomenon that happens when you get too close to a Black Hole is called:
Spaghettification
This is the name given to a particular type of high mass star that has exploded and had is made of neutrally charged sub atomic particles.
What is a neutron star?
What do Brown Dwarfs fuse instead of Hydrogen?
What is Lithium?