The Sun
The Stars
The Life Cycle of Stars
100

What are the three layers of the sun's atmosphere?

What is Photosphere, Chromosphere, and Corona?

100

What is a light year?

What is the distance that light travels in a vacuum in a year? 

100

Is anything brighter than a supernova explosion in this universe?

What is no?

200

What are solar flares?

What is a sudden release of energy from the sun?

200

How many light years is the closest star to the sun?

What is 4.3 light years?

200

Where does the birth of stars occur?

What is the nebula?

300

What system of fusions are done for the sun to produce energy?

What is hydrogen nuclei to helium nuclei?

300

What is apparent brightness? 

What is how bright the star appears from Earth?

300

What is a red supergiant? 

What is an aging giant star that has consumed it’s core supply of hydrogen?

400

What does the sun's interior mainly consist of? 

What is the core, radiation zone, and convection zone? 

400

How do astronomers calculate a stars mass? 

What is by observing their gravitational interaction of stars that occur in pairs? 
400

What is a white dwarf star? 

What is any small very dense star that is typically the size of a planet?

500

What was Herman von Helmholtz and William Thomson's hypothesis?

What is the sun shrinking because of gravity, due to potential energy converting into thermal energy?

500

What percent of stars are found on the main sequence?

What is 90%?

500

What is a planetary nebula?

What is a glowing cloud of gas surrounding a dying low-mass star?



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