Layers of Stars
The inner part stars in which nuclear fusion occurs
What is the Core?
Regions of strong magnetic activity, appear as dark splotches on the Sun.
What are sun spots
a process that occurs when the nuclei of several atoms combine into one larger nucleus.
What is Nuclear fusion
A graph that plots luminosity and temperature of a star.
What is a H-R Diagram?
The hottest type of star.
What is a blue-white star?
The orange-red layer above the photosphere.
What is the Chromosphere?
Sudden increases in brightness often found near sunspots or prominces.
What are Solar Flares?
A large ball of gas held together by gravity with a core so hot, nuclear fusion occurs
What is a star?
A process that occurs when the nuclei of several atoms combine into one larger nucleus.
What is Nuclear Fusion?
The coolest type of star.
What is a red star
The apparent surface of a star
What is the Photosphere?
Huge bubbles of gas ejected from the corona.
What are Coronal Mass Ejections?
The star type of our Sun.
What is a medium sized star.
These stars have a shorter life span
What is a High-Mass Star
The stars that are midway between hot and cold.
What are orange, yellow, and white stars?
A shell of cooler hydrogen above a star's core
What is the Radiative zone?
Charged particles that stream continually away from the Sun create solar wind (Aurora can occur from solar winds.)
What is Solar Winds?
What most stars are classified as.
What are red dwarfs.
These stars have a longer life span.
What is a low-mass star?
The way scientists determine the mass of a star
What is looking at the color of the star?
Where hot gas moves deeper into the interior
What is the Convection zone?
The largest star in the universe known to this date.
What is VY Canis Major ?
The two men who created the H-R Diagram
Who are Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Norris Russell.