Stars from Birth to Death
This force pulls gas and dust together to form a star.
What is gravity?
In this stage, a star expands and cools after using up its hydrogen fuel.
What is a red giant?
This is the end stage of a massive star with gravity so strong, not even light can escape.
What is a black hole?
This end-of-life star explosion can produce heavy elements that might become part of a new star system.
What is a supernova?
The formation of new elements during the life cycle of a star is called stellar n___.
What is nucleosynthesis?
The process where hydrogen atoms combine to form helium, powering a star.
What is nuclear fusion?
The outer layer of a red giant that has used up its helium can form this colorful, glowing shell.
What is a planetary nebula?
This spinning, magnetic star is what remains after a star less than 3 solar masses goes supernova.
What is a neutron star (or pulsar)?
This element is the heaviest that can form via core fusion in a star.
What is iron?
The heaviest mass elements produced during a supernova explosion are created by ___ capture.
What is neutron?
This is the point of infinite mass at the center of a black hole.
What is a singularity?
Small stars like our Sun become this glowing dense object after fusion stops.
What is a white dwarf?
This boundary around a black hole is the "point of no return" for any matter or energy in the vicinity.
What is the event horizon?
This expanding cloud of debris is left behind after a high-mass stellar explosion.
What is a supernova remnant?
Alpha particle fusion to form heavier elements is also described as the capture of this element.
What is helium?
The end of life for a star depends primarily on this property.
What is mass?
The dense, glowing core of a white dwarf consists of this element.
What is carbon?
This theory describes time dilation and other distortions in spacetime that occur when traveling near the speed of light.
What is Einstein's Theory of Relativity?
A Type II supernova is also called a ___-collapse supernova.
What is "core"?
The distance from the center of a black hole to the event horizon is known as the S___ Radius.
What is "Schwarzschild"?
Black holes do not emit light because the escape velocity of a black hole is greater than the ___.
What is the speed of light?
This type of explosion occurs when hydrogen builds up on the surface of a white dwarf of less than 1.4 solar masses.
What is a nova?
This model describes the periodic bursts of light from a pulsar.
What is the Lighthouse Model?
A carbon detonation, Type Ia supernova occurs when the mass of a white dwarf exceeds 1.4 solar masses, also known as the __ limit.
What is Chandrasekhar?
This low-mass, high-energy particle is produced when protons and electrons are compressed together into neutrons.
What is a neutrino?