Star Birth
Low Mass Star
The Fate of Our Sun
High Mass Star
Classifying Stars
100
A cloud of dust and gas in space
What is a Stellar Nebula?
100
A contracting mass of gas which represents an early stage in the formation of a star
What is a Protostar?
100
In 5 billion years our is going to become a _____.
A) Super red giant
B) Neutron star
C) White dwarf
D) Luminosity dwarf
What is a Super Red giant?
100
Betelgeuse is among the biggest stars ever discovered and among the most luminous and is 126,000 times more luminous than our Sun.
What is a Red Super Giant?
100
The source of the heat and light that powers the solar system
What is the Sun (Yellow-white dwarf)?
200
A region of condensing matter will begin to heat up and start to glow forming a _________
What is a Protostar?
200
Once a star has finished fusing hydrogen and helium, it begins fusing helium into either carbon or oxygen.
What is a Main Sequence?
200
The fate of Earth is unknown when our Sun becomes
What is Red Giant?
200
These blasts produce much of the material in the universe including some elements, like iron, which make up our planet and even ourselves.
What is a when the Supernova explodes?
What is Supernova?
200
The color of the star Deneb is this
What is a white star?
300
Process by which nuclear reactions between light elements forms heavier elements
What is Nuclear Fusion?
300
When the Stellar Evolution begins as gases blow away from the central star at speeds of a few kilometers per second, it becomes this.
What is a Planetary Nebula phase?
300
While the core collapses, the outer layers of material in the star begins to do this
What is the outer layers expanding outwards?
300
When the core of a massive star undergoes gravitational collapse at the end of its life, protons and electrons are literally scrunched together, leaving behind one of nature's most wondrous creations.
What is Neutron Star?
300
According to the H-R diagram, which of the following stars is the brightest
What is a Rigel star?
400
When temperatures reach 10,000,000 degrees Celsius this occurs
What is Nuclear Fusion?
400
Because of their large mass and small dimensions, such stars are dense and compact objects with average densities approaching 1,000,000 times that of water.
What is a White Dwarf?
400
This occurs in the Main Sequence
What is stars spend all of their time fusing Hydrogen into Helium?
400
When a star has exhausted the internal thermonuclear fuels in its core at the end of its life, the core becomes unstable which allows gravitationally collapses to occur inward upon itself, and the star’s outer layers are blown away becomes this.
What is a black hole?
400
Label the color stars on a scale from 1-5 from the MOST hot to the LEAST hot.
What is a blue-white star, white star, yellow star, orange star, and red star?
500
Massive objects made of gas found in outer space that create energy and radiates it as light. During this process which 3 elements make up the stars
What is Hydrogen, Helium, and other elements?
500
Hypothetical stars that don't yet exist but are predicted to in a far off future.
What is a Black Dwarf?
500
Explain what is Hertzsprung-Russell
What is a graph that shows the relationship between the temperature (color) of stars and their luminosity (brightness)?
500
A pulsar is a _______ star that spins and shoots energy into space
What is a Neutron?
500
Explain how the distance from earth affects the apparent brightness of a star when the stars are the same age, distance and temperature.
Explain when the stars aren't the same distance, age and temperature.
BONUS 1000 POINTS FOR THE TEAM WHO ANSWERS EVERY QUESTION CORRECTLY AND 500 FOR THE TEAM WHO GETS IT HALF RIGHT!!!!
1) What is if two stars are the same temperature, same age, and same distance from the Earth, the larger one will appear brighter?
2) What is if the temperature, age, or size is different, the one closest to Earth will appear brighter, even if that is the smaller one?