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Section 1 Telescopes
Section 2 Characteristics of stars
Section 3 Lives of stars
Section 4 Star systems and Galaxies
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A device that makes distant objects appear to be closer
What is a telescope
100
Groups of stars that form an imaginary figure
What are constellations
100
The remains of high mass stars
What are Neutron stars
100
The powers of using ten to write a very large or very small numbers in shorter form
What is scientific notation
200
The distance between the crest of one wave and the crest of the next wave
What is a wavelength
200
A device that breaks light into colors and produces an image of the resulting spectrum
What is a spectrograph
200
The earliest stage of a star's life
What is a protostar
200
A cluster with a loose, disorganized appearance and contain more then a few thousand stars
What is an open cluster
300
A piece of transparent glass, curved so that the middle is thicker
What are convex lenses
300
The brightness of a star if it had the standard distance from earth
What is absolute brightness
300
A massive explosion (commonly from high mass stars)
What is a supernova
300
A cluster that contains large groups of older stars
What is a global cluster
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A device used to detect radio waves from objects in space
What are radio telescopes
400
The apparent change in position of an object when you look at it from different places
What is parallax
400
An object with gravity so that nothing, not even light can escape.
What is a black hole
400
A system in which one star pierodically blocks the light from another
What is an eclipsing binary
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The range of the electromagnetic spectrum
What are radio, infared, UV, X-ray, and gamma rays
500
BTSC2(the way we classify stars)
What is brightness, temperature, size, composition, and color
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The life of a star (starting from a HIGH mass protostar)
What is a nebula, a protostar, a star, giant, supernova, and a black hole
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The names of classified galaxies from astromoners
What are spiral, elliptical, and irregular galaxies