Stars Life Cycle
Stars
Galaxies
The Universe
Random ?
100
Where stars are born
What is a nebula
100
This is a band of light that is produced when white light comes through a prism.
What is a spectrum?
100
This is the name of our galaxy.
What is a Milky Way?
100
This is the Big Bang Theory.
What is the theory that states the universe began with a tremendous explosion?
100
This how stars actually move.
What is wobble?
200
This is the stage where stars spend most of their life
What is main sequence
200
Scientists use the temperature of a star to do this
How are stars classified?
200
This is the shape of the Milky Way Galaxy and most other galaxies also fit into this type.
What is a spiral galaxy?
200
This is the study of the origin, properties, processes and evolution of the universe.
What is cosmology?
200
This is the apparent motion of stars.
What is the movement of stars in a circle around Polaris called?
300
It's a small, hot, dim star that is the leftover center of an old star
What is a white dwarf?
300
Light-year
What is the distance that light travels in one year called?
300
That is an elliptical galaxy.
What galaxy type is shaped like a sphere?
300
This is how scientists think the Universe is moving.
What is moving apart or expanding over time?
300
After a supernova a star can become a neutron star, or this.
What is a black hole?
400
That is a giant explosion of a massive star where it collapses and throws its outer layers into space
What is a supernova?
400
This is a tight group of millions of stars.
What is a globular cluster?
400
This is what scientists think will happen to the Universe if it continues to expand because we may not have enough matter to stop the expansion.
Why will stars die and the universe will become a cold and dark place?
400
This is the force that pulls matter together to form a star.
What is gravity?
500
This is a diagram that shows the comparison between a Starr's surface temperature and absolute magnitude.
What is H-R diagram?
500
It's is the brightness of a star as seen from Earth.
What is apparent magnitude?
500
These are the most distant objects in space and are very starlike but very far away.
What is a quasar?
500
These are two ways scientists can calculate the age of the universe.
What is measuring the distance from Earth to other galaxies and the other is to calculate the ages of old stars.
500
This is what element a dead star, called a black dwarf, is mostly made of.
What is carbon?