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Star Characteristics
Star Groups
Kind of Stars
Space Objects
Leftovers
100
Magnitude
What is the brightness of a star?
100
Constellation
What is a group of stars that form a pattern?
100
Star
What are glowing balls of gases?
100
Nebula
What is a cloud of dust, gases, and debris?
100
Astronomy
What is the study of stars and other heavenly bodies?
200
Produce light or Reflect light
What is produce light?
200
Star cluster
What is a larger group of stars held together by gravity?
200
Pulsar
What is a neutron star that spins rapidly on its axis.
200
Asteroid
What is made of irregularly shaped pieces of rock, metal, and dust?
200
Spectroscope
What is the telescope that breaks starlight into its color?
300
Dwarf, giant, supergiant
What are the sizes of stars?
300
Binary system
What is a star group that contains two stars?
300
Variable Star
What are stars that regularly or repeatedly change in magnitude.
300
Comet
What is a chunk of frozen gases, water, and dust that orbits the sun?
300
Sun
What is the closest star to Earth?
400
Blue
What color are the hottest stars?
400
Multiple star group
What are star groups that contain two or three stars and held together by gravity?
400
Nova
When an existing star flares up and becomes brighter than normal.
400
Milky Way
What is the galaxy we live in?
400
Absolute Magnitude verses Apparent Magnitude
What is absolute is the true brightness of the star and apparent is how bright it looks to us.
500
Parallax
What is the measurement of a star’s apparent movement over time
500
Galaxy
What is a huge star system that covers many light-years of space?
500
Black Hole
When a massive supergiant star collapses and disappears from space.
500
Local Group
What is a cluster of galaxies that travel through space? The Milky Way is part of the Local Group.
500
Meteorite
What is a meteoroid that hits Earth's surface?