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100

Many stars go along this path in which they start off blue, then go yellow, then red, until they finally collapse into a white dwarf.

What is the Main Sequence?

100

These type of galaxies have a flat disk, spiral arms, a central bulge, and a halo.

What is a Spiral Galaxy?
100

This is at the center of all Spiral Galaxies, and most other galaxies.

What is a Black Hole?
100

The name of our galaxy.

What is The Milky Way?

100

The Milky Way is this type of Spiral Galaxy.

What is a Barred-Spiral Galaxy?

200

This is formed when a star in the Main Sequence shells off its outer layers of gas, leaving its core as a white dwarf.

What is a Planetary Nebula?

200

This type of Galaxy is in a sphere or football shape.

What is an Elliptical Galaxy?

200

Made up of gas and dust, this is responsible for creating new stars.

What is a Nebula?

200

The sun is located here in the Milky Way.

What is halfway between the Galactic Center and the outer rim?

200

Light is able to travel in empty space because it is this type of wave.

What is an Electromagnetic Wave?

300

This type of star is INCREDIBLY massive, but it compact into a VERY small area. As such, it has an immensely powerful gravitational pull.

What is a Neutron Star.

300

This type of Galaxy is not a spiral, elliptical, or lenticular Galaxy.

What is an Irregular Galaxy?

300

These dozens to thousands of stars are grouped together inside the arms of Spiral Galaxies.

What is an Open Star Cluster?

300

This is how wide our galaxy (The Milky Way) is.

What is 100,000 lightyears wide?

300

These are the three largest galaxies in the Local Group.

What are the Milky Way, The Andromeda, and the Triangulum?

400

This is when a Neutron Star gathers enough material from nearby stars so that it can shine brightly from its magnetic poles, as well as spin rapidly and rhythmically.

What is a Pulsar?

400

This type of Galaxy has a disk but no spiral arms.

What is a Lenticular Galaxy?

400

This is how Planets are created.

What is "Heat creates Stellar Wind, which blows materials away from a newborn star. Some material sticks together and gets caught in the star's gravitational pull."

400

This is how many galaxies are in the local group.

What is 54?

400

How long it takes the Hubble Telescope to orbit the Earth.

What is 97 minutes?

500

This marks when a star officially stops being gas and dust and becomes a star

What is Nuclear Fusion?

500

This is the main type of galaxy that produces stars.

What is a Spiral Galaxy?

500

These millions to hundreds-of-millions of stars are usually old for stars, are clumped closely together, and make up the "halo" of our galaxy.

What is a Globular Star Cluster?

500

This is how many galaxies we estimate are in existence.

What is 170 billion?

500

An image from the Hubble Telescope is made up of this many images.

What is 48 images?