Tools of Astronomy
Pattern of stars in the sky
What are Constellations?
The hottest stars are this color.
What is Blue?
This is a large amount of gas and dust that is the beginning of a star.
What is a Nebula?
We are a part of this galaxy
What is the Milky Way?
This states that our universe started with an enormous explosion 10-15 billion years ago.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
This has the longest wavelength on the electromagnetic spectrum
What are Radio Waves?
This is a unit of distance to measure in space.
What is Light-Year?
This determines how long a star will live.
What is it's Mass?
Our solar system only contains one star. True or False
True, the Sun is the only star in our solar system.
This is how all galaxies are moving relative to each other
What is they are moving away from each other?
A building that contains one or more telescopes
What is an Observatory?
This is what astronomers use to measure distance to nearby stars
What is Parallax?
This occurs when a Giant or Super Giant star dies
What is a Supernova?
These are star systems with two stars or double stars.
What are Binary Stars?
This is the group that most stars belong to
What are Main Sequence Stars?
A telescope that uses a mirror
These are the 3 main characteristics used to classify stars
What are Size, Temperature, and Brightness?
These are distant objects in the sky that are bright and almost look like stars.
What are Quasars?
We are this type of galaxy.
What is a Spiral Galaxy?
This is the most common element in stars
What is Hydrogen?
This breaks light from an object into colors and photographs that spectrum
What is a Spectrograph?
The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram measures these 2 things about stars
What is Brightness and Surface Temperature?
This is the life-cycle of a High Mass Star.
What is Nebula, Protostar, Main Sequence Star, Super Giant, Supernova, Neutron Star or Black Hole
This is when one star blocks another star.
What is an Eclipsing Binary?
Pulsars are this kind of star
What is a Neutron Star?