Characteristics of Stars/the Sun
The brightness of a star.
What is magnitude?
Means new in Latin, a star that suddenly flares up in brightness.
What is a nova?
Groups of stars in a pattern.
What is a constellation?
A huge star system that covers many light-years of space.
What is a galaxy?
They are irregularly shaped pieces of rock, metal and dust that orbit the sun.
What is an asteroid?
The true brightness of a star.
What is absolute magnitude?
The largest and brightest stars.
What is a supergiant?
What is a multiple star group?
The Milky Way
What is the name of our galaxy?
A rocky object in space that is smaller than an asteroid.
What is a meteoroid?
The measurement of a star's apparent movement over time.
What is parallax?
When a super giant collapses and disappears from space.
What a black hole?
Two or more stars revolving around each other.
What is a binary system?
A cluster of galaxies.
What is a local group?
When a meteor passes through the earth's atmosphere, also known as "shooting stars."
What is a meteor?
Stars that regularly and repeatedly change in magnitude, twinkle.
What are variable stars?
its a rapidly spinning neutron star that spins on its axis.
What is a pulsar?
He created them for man's use.
Why did God create constellations?
They are classified according to shape and symmetry.
How do astronomers classify galaxies?
Smaller stars, like our sun.
What is a dwarf star?
A large cloud of dust, gas, and debris in space.
What is a nebula?
They teach the position of the sun, moon, planets, and stars determine a person's destiny at birth.
What do astrologists teach?
An icy chunk of frozen gases, water and dust that orbits around the sun.
What is a comet?