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Our Closest Star
Characteristics of Stars
Sizes & Distances
Kinds of Stars
Miscellaneous
100
The name of our closest star.
What is the sun?
100

The measurement of the brightness of a star

What is magnitude?

100

A small to medium sized star like our sun

What is a dwarf star?

100

The kind of star our sun will become at the end of its lifecycle.

What is a white dwarf?

100
The distance light travels in one year.
What is a light year?
200

The distance from the earth to the sun

What is 150 million km?

200

How bright a star appears to us from earth.

What is apparent magnitude?

200

A star that is ten to hundreds of times larger than the sun.

What is a giant?

200

Go through periods of swelling and brightening and then shrinking and dimming.

What is a pulsar?

200
Collapsed core of a super nova considting of a dense ball of tightly compacted neutrons.
What is a neutron star?
300

The two main gases found in the sun

What are hydrogen and helium?

300

The measurement of how bright stars are if they were the same distance away from earth

What is absolute magnitude?

300

A star that is hundreds of times larger and thousands of times brighter than the sun

What is a supergiant?

300

A super massive star whose hydroden is depleted and has entered the first stage of the dying process. in which their atmospheres inflate.

What is a supergiant?
300
Formed by the collapse of a supergiant that has a gravitational force so strong that not evenlight can escape.
What is a black hole?
400

The process that combines hydrogen into helium in the sun's core.

What is nuclear fusion?

400
The color of the coolest stars
What is red?
400
The next closest star after our sun
What is Proxima Centauri?
400

A massive cooling star that explodes as it cools, becoming 1000s of times brighter.

What is a supernova?

400
A rapidly spinning neutron star that flings pulses of energy into space.
What is a pulsar?
500
The hottest part of the sun.

What is the core?

500
A star's color is most closely related to this
What is surface temperature?
500
The method of determining the distance from earth to a star based on the star when viewed from different angles.
What is a parallax?
500

At the end of it's life, a super massive star will either become a black hole, or this kind of star.

What is a neutron star?

500
Shows the relationship between the surface temperature and absolute magnitude of stars.
What is the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram?