Types of Star
This is the closest star to Earth.
What is the Sun?
A star will begin its life as this cloud of gas and dust in space.
What is a nebula?
Small and medium mass stars will turn into this before cooling and fading away.
What are white dwarfs?
What is the singularity?
This is the term for the Sun's atmosphere.
What is the corona?
These small, cool stars can burn for trillions of years.
What are red dwarfs?
This is the process by which stars convert fuel to energy.
What is nuclear fusion?
What are black dwarfs?
This is the point of no return, where the black hole's gravity becomes so strong that not even light can escape.
What is the event horizon?
This is the heaviest element that stars can reach through fusion.
What is iron?
These are the stars that middle mass stars will turn into before they die, like our sun.
What are red giants?
A main sequence star converts this hydrogen into this element in its core.
What is helium?
Only the most massive stars will end their lives in this fiery event.
What is a supernova?
This is the swirling matter that is actively falling into the black hole, heating up through friction.
What is the accretion disk?
This is the phenomenon where a white dwarf steals hydrogen, eventually causing it to ignite on the surface.
What is a nova?
These are the largest stars, and consume fuel at an extremely fast rate
What are supergiants?
These are what a star is called before it ignites.
What are protostars?
These types of stellar corpses are held up by the repulsion of neutral particles.
What are neutron stars?
This is the minimum size an object must be compressed to in order to become a black hole.
What is the Schwarzschild Radius?
What is a quarter?
These are what a star is called if it fails to ignite.
What is a brown dwarf?
These types of star are actively burning hydrogen. Most stars will spend around 90% of their lives here.
What are main-sequence stars?
This is the phenomenon that allows white dwarf stars to resist their own gravity.
What is electron degeneracy pressure?
What is Hawking Radiation?
This is the mass limit that a star must exceed in order to become a black hole when it dies.
What is the Oppenheimer-Volkoff Limit?