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Types of Stars
Birth of Stars
Neutron Stars and Black Holes
Death of Stars
Miscellaneous
100
These are the coolest and smallest stars that "live" for an extremely long time.
What are Red Dwarfs
100

Stars form when gravity compresses these areas of interstellar dust and gasses.

What is a Nebula?

100

Neutron Stars almost made entirely out of this subatomic particle.

What are Neutrons?

100
This is signals the end of the "main sequence" for stars and starts the process that will eventually end the stars "life."
What is the end of hydrogen fusion or the beginning of helium fusion in a stars core.
100

What color are Stars that are super hot and luminous?

What are Blue Stars
200
These are some of the hottest and brightest stars that have relatively short "lifespans."
What are Blue Giants or Blue Supergiants
200

This is the term given to fledgeling stars that have not yet achieved nuclear fusion and form into flattened discs of gases with a hot central core heated by gravitational compression of gases.

What is a Protostar?

200

The type of stars that create Neutron Stars and Black Holes are called

What is a High-Mass Star?

200

These small hot stars represent the remains of small to medium size stars like our Sun that have left the main sequence and had their cores crushed by gravity to roughly the size of Earth.

What are White Dwarfs?

200

What kind of star is Betelgeuse?

What is a Red Supergiant?

300

This is the purpose of the phrase "Oh be a fine gal/guy, kiss me"

What is mnemonic device to help remember order of stars from hottest to coolest

300

This occurs at roughly 10-20,000,000 degrees celsius and signals the "birth of a star."

What is the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium?

300

A Neutron Star that spins super fast and blinks in brightness

What is a Pulsar?

300
The very largest of all high mass stars leave these bizarre features behind after their Supernova explosions.
What are Black Holes
300

What is the event that is able to create heavy elements like the Calcium in your bones, Iron in your blood, etc.

What is a Supernova?

400

This is the name given to stars that are in the portion of their lives in which they fuse Hydrogen into Helium. The majority of stars on the H-R diagram fall into this catagory.

What are Main Sequence Stars

400

The disc of material that created the Sun and Planets in our Solar System is called:

What is a Protoplanetary disc?

400

Would an object near a Black Hole have time move faster or slower?

What is slower?

400

What kind of object is created after the death of a Low-Mass Star and has a White Dwarf in the middle?

What is a Planetary Nebula?

400

A freshly created Neutron Star with an unusually strong magnetic field is called:

What is a Magnetar?

500

These are "failed stars." They never had enough mass or create enough heat to achieve nuclear fusion.

What are Brown Dwarfs?

500
This force is the ultimate reason that nebulas coalesce and stars form.
What is gravity
500

The phenomenon that happens when you get too close to a Black Hole is called:

Spaghettification

500

This is the name given to a particular type of high mass star that has exploded and had is made of neutrally charged sub atomic particles.

What is a neutron star?

500

What do Brown Dwarfs fuse instead of Hydrogen?

What is Lithium?