the sun
This is the type of star the Sun is classified as.
What is a medium-sized main-sequence (yellow dwarf) star?
This process powers the Sun.
What is nuclear fusion?
The Milky Way is this type of galaxy.
What is a spiral galaxy?
This is the unit used to measure distances between stars.
What is a light-year?
A star is born in this cloud of gas and dust.
What is a nebula?
The Sun appears brighter than other stars because of this reason.
What is its closeness to Earth?
Fusion converts hydrogen into this element.
What is helium?
The Sun is located here in the Milky Way.
What is a spiral arm?
Light takes this long to travel from the Sun to Earth.
What are 8 minutes?
Once fusion begins, a star enters this long-lasting stage.
What is the main-sequence stage?
These are the two most common elements in the Sun.
What are hydrogen and helium?
The balance between gravity and fusion pressure inside a star is known as this.
What is hydrostatic equilibrium?
This is why galaxies contain stars, dust, gas, and this invisible matter.
What is dark matter?
One light-year is approximately this many metres.
What is 9.5 × 10¹⁵ metres?
This type of star forms after a low-mass star becomes a red giant.
What is a white dwarf?
This part of the Sun is where nuclear fusion occurs.
What is the core?
Fusion requires extremely high values of these two physical conditions.
What are temperature and pressure?
This is the approximate number of stars in the Milky Way.
What are hundreds of billions (100–400 billion)?
This star is the closest one to the Sun.
What is Proxima Centauri?
These are the two possible deaths of a high-mass star.
What are neutron star or black hole?
what object emits the most sunshine
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This force tries to collapse the star inward during fusion.
What is gravity?
furthest galaxy from the milky way
shays house
The fact that a star is 10 light-years away means this.
Its closer than shays house
This spectacular explosion marks the end of a red supergiant.
What is a supernova?