Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
4 main types of stars on the HR Diagram.
What are main sequence, white dwarfs, giants, and supergiants?
Birth place of all stars.
What is a nebula?
Main sequence stars way of making energy.
What is nuclear fusion?
Hottest color of stars.
What is blue?
Coach C's favorite color.
What is turquoise/teal?
Vertical axis (y axis) of HR Diagram
What is absolute magnitude/luminosity?
Dead core of a star.
What is a white dwarf?
Object made of rock and ice that follow an orbital path.
What is a comet?
Two characteristics of stars located in the bottom left corner.
What is hot and dull?
What is main sequence?
Horizontal Axis (x axis) of HR Diagram
What is the surface temperature?
Phase following red supergiant
What is a supernova?
Unit used to measure temperature.
What is 10?
Stars located in the upper right of the HR Diagram.
What are supergiants?
Star that emits pulses of energy into space
Rocky body orbiting the sun.
What is an asteroid?
Average mass stars that are bright, cool, and in the last phases of their life.
What are giants?
Milky Way Galaxy is this type of galaxy.
What is spiral galaxy?
Absolute magnitude of the sun
What is 1?
The 2 end phases of a massive star.
What is a black hole and neutron star?
Matter that makes up stars.
What is plasma?
Stars that are hotter but duller than the sun.
What are white dwarfs?
What is LCU (Lubbock Christian University)?