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Classifying Stars
Types of Stars
Life Cycle of Stars
H-R Diagram
Vocab
100
The temperature of blue stars
What is a hot star?
100
The color of the hottest stars
What is a blue star?
100
All stars start in this
What is a stellar nebula?
100
A graph that shows the relationship between a star's surface temperature and luminosity
What is the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram?
100
The amount of time it takes light to travel in one year
What is a light year?
200
Temperature of red stars
What is a cool star?
200
Small, hot star in the final stage of its life cycle
What is a white dwarf?
200
Average stars end their lives as this
What is a white dwarf?
200
The x axis of the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
Where is the surface temperature of a star found?
200
An apparent shift in the position of an object when viewed from different locations
What is parallax?
300
Luminosity
What is absolute magnitude?
300
star in the longest stage of its life cycle spent burning nuclear fusion
What is main sequence?
300
After supernova massive stars can become either _____ or _______.
What is a black hole or neutron star?
300
The Sun is found in this section of the H-R diagram
What is the main sequence?
300
The brightness of a star as seen from Earth
What is apparent magnitude?
400
The Sun is an example of ___.
What is an average star?
400
large, cool star in the third stage of its life cycle
What is a red giant star?
400
The process by which energy is generated in the core of a star during the second stage of its life cycle.
What is nuclear fusion?
400
Betelgeuse is a very large, cool star found on this part of the H-R diagram
What is the upper right corner?
400
Shows the relationship between a star's surface temperature and absolute magnitude
What is the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram?
500
Scientists use ______ to talk about the relative distance of stars from Earth and each other
What is parallax?
500
If the center of a collapsed star has a mass of more than 3 times the mass of the Sun, the star may contract forming a _______
What is a black hole?
500
A star under so much gravity that its electrons and protons have combined
What is a neutron star?
500
The factor that affects the luminosity of a star
What is the energy of a star?
500
The band of color produced when white light passes through a prism
What is spectrum?