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Low and Medium Mass Stars
High Mass Stars
Vocabulary
100
The remains of a low mass star's core.
What is a White Dwarf
100
The shortest living part of the cycle.
What is super giant
100
: An object whose gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape.
What is Black Hole
200
The part of a star's lifecycle where it is the biggest.
What is a Red Giant
200
Why is the High mass stars lifecycle so short?
What is it burns hydrogen more quickly
200
: The small, dense remains of a high-mass star after a supernova, that isn't quite big enough to make a black hole
What is Neutron star
300
The First part in the stars life cycle
What is protostar
300
The name of the explosion that is caused when a larger star collapses. It sends gas and dust into space that contribute to a nebula.
What is Super Nova
300
: The blue-white hot core of a star that is left behind after its outerlayers have expanded and drifted into space.
What is White dwarf
400
The name for the cloud of gas and dust that is formed when the outer layers of a red giant float away into space
What is a planetary nebula
400
The last part in the life cycle in most massive stars
What is Black hole
400
A large cloud of gas and dust in space, spread out in an immense volume.
What is Nebula:
500
What size star is our sun, and how long will it live? How long will the smallest of stars live?
Our star "the sun" is a medium-sized star, and we are 5 billion years into what scientists predict will be a 10 billion year lifespan. Some of the smallest stars may live trillions of years or longer, we're not sure because the universe has not existed for that long
500
What analogy did we use in class to explain why high mass stars burn out faster than low mass stars?
We can think of them like cars - Hummers burn through their gas a lot faster than smart cars. They are burning through their hydrogen a lot faster, hotter and more powerfully
500
The distance that light can travel in one year, roughly 9.5 trillion kilometers
What is a light year