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Characteristics of stars/ the Sun
Kinds of stars
Constellations/stargazing
Star groups
Other space objects
100
the closest star to earth
What is the sun?
100
stars that change their magnitude
What is a variable star?
100
groups of stars in a pattern
What is a constellation?
100
this prefix means 2
What is bi?
100
an irregular shaped piece of rock, metal, and dust
What is an Asteroid?
200
made op of 70% hydrogen, 28% helium, and 2% othe elements
What is the sun?
200
a cloud of interstellar gasses and debris
What is a nebula?
200
bend light to make objects seem larger
What is a refracting telescope?
200
a group of several thousand to a million stars arranged in a ball
What is a global cluster?
200
the place between Mars and Jupiter that contains several thousand asteroids
What is the Asteroid Belt?
300
the person who made the system that is till used today to classify the brightness of stars
who is Hipparchus?
300
the gravitational force in these is so great it can suck in anything- even light
What is a black hole?
300
produces a clear image because the light is reflected and not bent
What is a reflecting telescope?
300
a group of 30 galaxies or more which includes billions of stars
What is a local group?
300
makes a metor look like a shooting star and makes it GLOW
What is friction?
400
the next closest star to earth after the sun
What is Proxima Centauri?
400
people only spot 2 or 3 of these each year because the happen so rarely, it is rare to spot these without a telescope
What is a nova?
400
constellations that seem to revolve around the North Star
What is a circumpolar constellation?
400
the 2 stars that are so close that the gravity of both stars pull each star into an egg shape
What is Beta Lyrai?
400
the crater found in Arizona, it is 1 mile wide and 190 yards deep
What is the Barringer Crater?
500
numbers on the Hipparchus scale have gotten higher because of this
What is the telescope?
500
occurs when a massive star uses up all of its hydrogen fuel
What is a supernova?
500
the Super-giant in the top left corner of Orian
What is Betelgeuse?
500
were the stars Alcor and Mizar are located
What is the middle of the big dipper?
500
the Comet last seen in 1986
What is Halley's Comet?