Types of Stars
A large, hot star off the main sequence
What is a Blue Giant?
Is a form of energy from stars that we see.
What is light?
All stars begin by the conversion of this element to Helium in their core
What is Hydrogen?
Loose collections of young stars
What is an open cluster?
A massive, hot, shining ball of gas.
What is a star?
An older star with a cooler outer layer
What is a Red Giant?
A form of energy that comes from stars that we feel.
What is heat?
When this element is used up, it is converted into new elements such as Carbon and Oxygen.
What is Helium?
A tightly knit grouping of older stars
What is are globular clusters?
What is a black hole?
A tightly-packed collapsed core of a larger star.
What is a Neutron Star?
Two more forms of energy that come from stars (not heat or light)
What are ultraviolet radiation and X-rays?
A star's mass influences this.
What is its luminosity or brightness?
The type of star cluster that will eventually disperse.
What are open star clusters?
The collection of matter, space, and energy that exists, also known as the cosmos.
What is the universe?
A gravitationally dense region of space-time where nothing can escape, formed by a collapsed star
What is a Black Hole?
Another term for the brightness of a star
What is luminosity?
The term for the huge cloud of dust and gas that forms a star.
What is a nebulae?
The type of star cluster where the stars are born together, spend their lives as part of the cluster and will die in the cluster.
What are globular clusters?
A body held together by gravity that is made of millions of stars, gas, and dust.
What is a galaxy?
A stellar core remnant of a low to medium mass star.
What is a White Dwarf?
The source of energy in a star.
What is the nuclear reaction of Hydrogen atoms combining to form Helium?
Large stars produce this when they are dying and collapsing upon themeselves.
What is a blackhole?
Once a star starts shining it will be called this.
What is a main-sequence star?
Clouds of dust and gas found in space.
What are nebulae?