Definition
What force is also responsible for the star’s spherical shape?
Gravity
What is the name for our Star System?
Solar System
What is called the name of the center of a star?
Core
How low mass is it called?
The shockwave again blasts away the outer material in a huge ...
supernova explosion.
Under the force of gravity, the atoms in the center of the star become what?
Very hot.
What is called a Star System that have two star?
Binary Star System
What is the process stars perform in their cores?
Nuclear fusion
How long can a low mass (red dwarf) last?
A trillion years.
... formed from the remnants of that dead star.
New stars ...
What is the fourth state of matter?
Plasma
How do stars die?
Depending on the original mass of the star, its “life” may have lasted millions to billions of years.
Moving outward of the core,what is the next layer of a star?
Radiative zone
All of the stars remaining material collapses down to a ...
single point.
These low mass stars will fuse hydrogen into helium for billions of years before ...
they slowly cool for billions of years.
When a substance becomes plasma?
When it is ionized.
What is the closest Star System to us?
Alpha Centauri.
What is the layer that we can actuality see?
Photosphere
How long average mass stars like our Sun live?
billions of years.
Nucleosynthesis creates ...
heavier elements.
What are stars?
Stars are huge spheres of plasma held together by their own gravity.
How many planets have been discovered in the Alpha Centauri system?
What is the outermost layer of the Star that we only can see in a solar eclipse?
Corona
High mass stars are so massive they can fuse through their fuel faster, making them live for how long?
Some live for only hundreds of millions of years.
More than 5 billion years ago, a star exploded, and the material it ejected underwent a process called ...
Nucleosynthesis.