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constellation
What is an imaginary pattern of stars.
100
Milky Way
What is the galaxy we live in
100
observatory
What is a large building with telescopes for the purpose of viewing the sky?
100
white dwarf
What a star becomes when it runs out of fuel?
100
lightyear
What is the measurement of distances between stars?
200
Greek and Roman myths
What are constellations named after.
200
irregular
What is a galaxy without any regular shape?
200
telescope
What is a device that makes faraway objects appear closer?
200
supernova
What is happens when a small or medium mass star explodes?
200
Explain big bang theory
What is how our universe began from a single explosion billions of years ago?
300
size and composition
What are two ways to classify stars.
300
spiral galaxy
What is a galaxy with a bulge in the middle and arms that spiral outward?
300
convex lens
What is a piece of glass that is curved, thicker in the middle than at the edges?
300
neutron stars
What remains after a supergiant star explodes?
300
Explain how a star is born
What is from the gas and dust when it condenses, heats up and nuclear fusion begins
400
spectograph
What is the instrument used by astronomers to determine the composition of stars.
400
stars, gas and dust
What is found in the arms of a spiral galaxy?
400
reflecting telescope
What is a telescope with curved mirrors that focus and reflect light?
400
black hole
What is an object with a gravitational force so strong that not even light can escape. What a giant star may become when it dies.
400
Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
What is demonstrates and classifies stars according to their temperature and absolute brightness.
500
parallax
What the way astronomers measure a change in a position of a star, when looking at it from a different direction.
500
star systems
What is a group of two or more stars?
500
electromagnetic radiation
What is a form of light that can travel though space in the form of waves. This is what causes a telescope to work.
500
pulsar
What is a spinning neutron star
500
refracting telescope
What is works through a convex lens