Stars
The brightest star in the night sky.
What is Sirius?
The study of outer space.
What is astronomy?
The hottest region of the sun’s atmosphere.
What is corona?
Stars that outline a picture in the sky.
What is a constellation?
Spiral arms attached to a straight “bar” that runs through the galaxy.
What is barred spiral?
The pole star.
What is Polaris?
The force that resists motion.
What is friction?
The hottest region of the sun.
What is the core?
Familiar shape within Ursa Major which contains the pointer stars.
What is the Big Dipper?
A high speed stream of particles that travels outward from holes in the sun’s corona.
What is solar wind?
The closest star to the earth.
What is the sun?
An area that contains no air.
What is a vacuum?
Streams of gas erupting from the chromosphere and returning in loop like fashion.
What is solar prominence?
Earth is located in this galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
A pair of stars that travel together and rotate around each other.
What are binary stars?
The brightest star in the constellation Leo.
What is Regulus?
Large clouds of gas or dust floating in space.
What is a nebula?
Part of the sun visible only during a solar eclipse.
What is chromosphere or corona?
The cluster with about 40 galaxies in which we find the Earth.
What is the Local Group?
Star‘s brightness is measured this way.
What is magnitude.
The brightest star in the constellation Perseus.
What is Algol?
The actual explosion of a star.
What is a supernova?
Dark patches on the sun’s chromosphere.
What are sunspots?
This galaxy shape is like a football or egg.
What is elliptical?
The star’s brightness as it appears from earth.
What is apparent magnitude?