Birth of a Star
This universal force plays a major role in star formation
What is gravity?
The major factors in determining a star's life span is
What is size and mass?
The basic building block of all matter.
What is an atom?
The number of planets in our solar system.
What is eight (8)?
This diagram is used to show the relationship between color and temperature
What is the Hertzprung-Russell (HR) diagram?
This cloud of dust and gas is the birth place of stars
What is a neubla?
An low mass star has a ___________ life span.
What is longer?
What is an electron?
The difference between orbit and rotation.
An orbit is an object moving around a different object and a rotation is an object spinning on its own axis
The X axis on the HR diagram represents
What is the surface temperature?
Atoms combine to form heavier atoms during this process
What is nuclear fusion?
After becoming a super red giant, a massive star could become one of two things
What is a black hole or neutron star?
The atomic number of an atom tells you this.
What is the number of protons in an atom?
The order of planets in our solar system.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
The Y axis on the HR diagram represents
What is luminosity?
What is hydrogen?
A massive star has a ___________ life span.
What is short?
This subatomic particle determines what type of element is present.
What is a proton?
The definition of a Jovian planet.
What is a planet that is very large, made mostly of gas, and furthest from the sun.
Most stars are classified as
What is a main sequence star?
This is the first stage in a star's formation
What is a protostar?
A low or medium mass star will ultimately turn into this at the end of it's life span
What is a black dwarf?
The number of neutrons in an atom of carbon with an atomic mass of 14.011
What is eight neutrons?
This model of our solar system was supported by the work of Copernicus.
What is the heliocentric model?