Electromagnetic Spectrum
Zones of the Sun
Magnetic Sun
Life Cycle
Anything Goes...
100
Of the colors of visible light, this one has the lowest frequency.
What is red light
100
Photons can make a one million year journey through this zone of the Sun known as the "random walk".
What is the Radiative Zone?
100
Cooler regions of the Sun's surface where magnetic field lines penetrate through the photosphere.
What are sunspots?
100
This type of Supernova leaves no stellar remnant.
What is Type 1a
100
The eventual fate of our star, theoretically speaking.
What is a black dwarf?
200
Of the bands of the electromagnetic spectrum, this one travels fastest in a vacuum.
What is... this is a trick questing they all travel at the same speed... The Speed of Light!!!
200
The visible surface of the Sun.
What is the Photosphere?
200
The average amount of time between solar maxima.
What is eleven years?
200
90% of the stars in the galaxy are members of this luminosity class.
What is the Main Sequence?
200
A star exhibits a parallax shift of 0.25 arcseconds. How far away is the star in parsecs?
4 parsecs.
300
What you see when analyzing the spectrum of a star moving away from you.
What is a red shift?
300
The outermost portion of the solar atmosphere.
What is the Corona?
300
This famous astronomer was the first to observe sunspots moving across the face of the Sun.
Who is Galileo?
300
The force between these particles is overcome to form a neutron star.
What are electrons
300
The majority of the stars in the galaxy are members of this spectral class.
What is M-class? Also accepting red...
400
This determines the frequency of light radiated by an object.
What is temperature?
400
The nuclear process by which a star generates energy.
What is nuclear fusion?
400
This causes the magnetic field of the Sun to become twisted and complex.
What is differential rotation?
400
The phase just before nuclear fusion begins in the core of a young star.
What is a protostar?
400
A stellar-like object that has never been able to support nuclear fusion.
What is a brown dwarf?
500
Electromagnetic radiation consists of these "particles" of light.
What are photons?
500
This thin layer of the Sun's atmosphere, found between the photosphere and the corona, produces most of the Sun's UV light.
What is the chromosphere?
500
These are magnetic loops of trapped plasma that can result in solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
What are prominences?
500
A stellar remnant with a mass more than 2.5 times that of the Sun.
What is a black hole?
500
In the movie Spaceballs, it is deemed that light speed is too slow. How fast does the spaceship Spaceball 1 go to in pursuit of Princess Vespa?
What is Ludacrious Speed?
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