Constellations
The 88 sections in the sky.
What are constellations?
The spectra/spectral lines of a star can determine ___.
What is the elements it's made of?
One of the key factors for how we know that the universe is expanding.
What is the Doppler Effect?
Easy way to determine the age and temperature of stars.
What is color?
The tool astronomers use to classify stars and their life cycles.
What is an H-R diagram?
The brightest star in the sky year-round.
What is Polaris?
As you move to the right on the Electromagnetic Spectrum, the waves get ___.
What is stronger/smaller/bluer?
What changes about a wave in relation to the observer.
What is Frequency?
How we view the brightness of a star from Earth.
What is apparent magnitude/brightness?
Where 90% of the stars in the universe sit on the H-R diagram.
What is The Main Sequence?
Why stars move around in the sky.
What is Earth's Rotation?
What the double slit experiment proved about light.
What is it's both waves and particles?
The light observed from a star that is moving towards the observer.
What is Blueshift?
If stars were lined up at an equal distance from Earth we would see their ___.
What is absolute magnitude/brightness?
The stage in which a star spends most of its life.
What is The Main Sequence?
Name one major constellation visible in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is Orion/Cassiopeia/Canis Major/Ursa Major/Draco/etc.?
The order of the types of waves in the Electromagnetic Spectrum.
What are Radio/Microwaves/Infrared/Visible Light/Ultraviolet/X-rays/Gamma?
What the strength of a redshift or blueshift determines about an object.
Older stars are usually the color ___ while younger ones are usually the color ___.
What is Red and Blue?
What a very large star would create at the end of its lifetime.
What is a black hole?
The constellation with the origin story about a man who kills every animal in the world, but was defeated by a scorpion.
What is Orion?
A spectra with mostly black space.
What is an emission spectra?
Observing a larger wave from a star's movement indicates that it is ___.
What is Redshifting?
True or false: A star cannot be green.
What is True?
What is measured on the HR diagram.
What is absolute magnitude vs temperature and luminosity vs spectral type?