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Life Cycle of a Star
Constellation
The Sun
Galaxies
Miscellaneous
100
The first stage of a star.
What is a nebula?
100
A measure of the amount of light received from Earth
What is apparent magnitude.
100
Cooler areas on the surface of the sun that appear as dark spots.
What are sunspots.
100
Galaxy shaped like a flattened football
What is an elliptical galaxy?
100
The color of a very, very hot star
What is Blue?
200
The final paths of a star depends on this.
What is the mass of the star?
200
Patterns of stars in the sky
What are constellations.
200
Huge, arching columns of gas associated with sunspots
What are prominences.
200
The type of galaxy that we are in
What is a spiral galaxy?
200
Has an event horizon?
What is a black hole?
300
In the core of a star, hydrogen fuses into this.
What is helium?
300
The number of modern constellations that the sky is divided into.
What is 88
300
Observed when a star or galaxy is moving away from Earth
What is red shift?
300
The amount of time it takes light from the sun to reach the Earth.
What is 8 minutes
400
This forms when a collapsed core of a supernova is 1.4 to 3 times the mass of a star.
What is a neutron star?
400
The measure of the amount of light that a star gives off.
What is absolute magnitude.
400
Scientists discovered this by observing sunspots.
What is equator rotates faster than the poles of the Sun.
400
Two types of spiral galaxies
What is normal and barred?
400
The closest star to Earth
What is the Sun?
500
The percentage of stars that are considered to be main sequence stars.
What is 90%
500
Constellations that circle around polaris and complete a rotation in about 24 hours.
What are circumpolar constellations.
500
A massive burst of solar winds and magnetic fields that rise up above the corona
What coronal mass ejections?
500
Galaxy with no shape, large regions of hydrogen gas and young, hot stars
What is irregular?
500
These are the three ideas of the origin of the universe?
What is steady state theory, oscillating theory, and big bang.