Electromagnetic Spectrum
Zones of the Sun
Our Star, The Sun
Life Cycle of Stars
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 is the eventual fate of our Sun
Black Dwarf (also accepting White Dwarf)
100
Where the Uranium that we mine came from (originally).
What is a supernova explosion
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 in this phase of their lives.
What is the Main Sequence?
200
A graph that compares the brightness (luminosity) of a star vs its color (temperature).
HR diagram
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
Solar storm erupting from the Sun's surface can cause power outages and these beautiful phenomena?
What are Aurora?
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 (color).
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
True or false... More than half of the mass of the solar system is contained within the Sun?
True
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
The hottest stars in the universe are this color
What is Blue?
500
The portion of the Sun between the Radiative Zone and the Photosphere
What is the convective zone?
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 that occurs after the most massive stars go supernova.
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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