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An existing star that flares up and becomes brighter than normal.
What is a nova?
These telescopes use mirrors to make objects larger.
What are reflecting telescopes?
The type of classification of galaxies.
What are elliptical, irregular, barred spiral?
What is it's temperature?
The brightness of a star.
What is it's magnitude?
A group of stars that form a pattern.
What is a constellation?
These telescopes break starlight into its colors.
What are spectroscope?
A cloud of dust, gases, and debris is called.
What is a nebula?
Magnitude of a star as it appears to us?
What is it's apparent magnitude?
The star that spins rapidly on its axis.
What is a neutron star?
The telescope that is in space?
What are the Hubble or James Webb?
A large star system that covers many light-years of space.
What is a Galaxy?
The parts of a comet.
Nucleus, Coma, Tail
The true brightness of a star.
What is the absolute magnitude?
Name the difference sizes of star.
What are dwarf, giant, and supergiant?
Who is a blackhole?
Astrology- stars can tell your future, show your destiny.
Astronomy- study of space
The color shift when objects move towards Earth.
What is the blue shift?
What is a star that regularly or repeatedly changes in magnitude?
What is a variable star?
The measurement of a star's apparent movement over time.
What is a parallax?
What is redshift?
Explain how stars produce their own light
Explain the difference between meteor, meteorite, and meteroid.
Meteor- falling into earth's atmosphere
Meteoroid-in space
Meteorite- hits earth's surface